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  3. The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2021
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108939713
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939713
Subjects:
Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Religion, Church History
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Book description

Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter W. M. Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were probably finished on the same day. Through relentless scrutiny of the evidence, he reveals that the contents of the 1549 version continued to evolve both during and after the printing of the first edition, and that changes were still being made to the Elizabethan revision weeks after the Act of Uniformity was passed. His bold reconstruction is transformative for the early Anglican liturgy, and thus for the wider history of the Church of England. This major, revisionist work is a remarkable book about a remarkable book.

Reviews

‘… a densely written, excellently priced volume, generously illustrated with colour and black-and-white plates throughout. … the book will remain crucial reading material for book historians, bibliographers, and bibliophiles specialising in early modern European printing and the book trade in the years to come.’

Hannah Yip Source: The Review of English Studies

‘Blayney makes a significant contribution to understanding the history of The Book of Common Prayer … an insightful, interesting book … Essential.’

R. M. Kollar Source: Choice

‘This is a remarkable feat of scholarship, worth buying for its demolition of much extant thinking around the Black Rubric alone. Above all else, it is a reminder of how many stories bubble out from, and are inherent in, our ancient liturgy.’

Fergus Butler-Gallie Source: Church Times

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