12mo. [38], 184pp, [148]. With an engraved frontispiece. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled black morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, loss to upper corner of front blank fly-leaf, early inked inscription of 'John Murray / April 1726' to recto.

An early eighteenth-century Latin edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The translation was completed by Jersey-born Anglican clergyman Jean Durel (1625-1683), who had been appointed Chaplain of the Stuart Court's French congregation at the Savoy and also held the monopoly for printing the French translation of the new authorised Liturgy. Considered eminently superior to the latter, this translation mined the Sarum Missal and Breviary as a source for, amongst others, the canticles and psalms included here. The delay of seven years between the passing of the Act of the Uniformity, which made use of the Book of Common Prayer compulsory in Anglican church services, and the first publication of this translation in 1669 suggests that the demand for Latin editions had waned since Tudor days.