BEIN Mrp25 +1637 Copy 1: Autograph of The Leigh. Letter from bookseller to C.B.T.: 1st ed., 1st issue nearly all copies destroyed. [Bound with] Dowden, p. 4: The Bk. of prayer & the Psalter are quite distinct bks.; it is misleading to suggest that the presence or absence of the catchword "Certaine" is the mark of the 1st & 2d eds. of the whole book. p. 10 from cat., mounted facing p. 7: the Psatter was not issued with the Bk. of prayer. Bound with Church of Scotland. Book of common prayer. Psalter. 1638. Bound with Bible. English. O.T. Psalms. Paraphrases. ed. James I. First (?) edition of the version known as Archbishop Laud's Prayer book ; 1st issue as described in Bishop Dowden's Notes on the bibliography of the The booke of common prayer ... 1637 (Publications of the Edinburgh bibliographical society, v. 1, Session 1893-94, no. 5, p. 7-8) ...

BEIN Mrp25 +1637 Copy 1 (cont.): ... The initial of the Gospel for the second Sunday after Trinity (signed H8 verso) differs in design. For the possibility of a previous edition having been issued and destroyed--cf. also ibid., p. [1]-4.

Signatures: a-b8A-Q8R6.

Printed in part in black letter ; woodcut initials, head and tailpieces ; title printed in black and red, within ornamental type border.