Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1561

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...