[Herring, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury]

A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God

London By Thomas Baskett; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett 1749 To be used in all Churches and Chapels throughout England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, on Tuesday the Twenty fifth Day of April next, being the Day appointed by Proclamation for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for putting an End to the late bloody and expensive War, by the Conclusion of a Just and Honourable Peace. First Edition. 4to. [234 x 173 x 10 mm]. 15pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a wide border built up by a dog-tooth roll, an ornamental roll with semi-circles, and a wave, birds and flower roll, with a large floral tool at the corners. The spine divided into six panels, tooled in gilt, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, "Dutch gilt" endleaves, gilt edges. (Upper joint and spine cracked, headcaps chipped and corners a little rubbed). A very attractive copy, with striking "Dutch gilt" endleaves. The wave, birds and flower roll also appears on a binding for Jonas Hanway, by his first binder, illustrated as item 121 in Maggs catalogue 1212. This binder, who remains nameless, worked for Hanway until about 1765 (or conceivably he continued to bind for Hanway, but with completely new tools). Hobson in Appendix X of his "English Bindings... of J. R. Abbey" lists ten of his bindings, and Nixon refers to several more in his "Five Centuries of English Bookbinding", p.178. I confess not to know which late bloody and expensive war had ended, unless the peace was the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, signed on 18th October 1748 at the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, Inscribed on the front fly-leaf: "Ann Frankland. Given me by Archbishop Herring. April 19th 1749". Thomas Herring (1693-1757) was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1747. Ann Frankland (d.1813) married (in 1754) Thomas Pelham (1728-1805), who was created first Earl of Chichester in 1801. A Pelham bookplate is concealed by that of the Earl of Chichester.

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