Common Prayer Book - King Edward VII Coronation Edition

Common Prayer Book — King Edward VII Coronation Edition (1902)

By the Trustees of the Blackwell Charities • Published for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN: — • Condition: Good • Sold by Crappy Old Books

A pocket cathedral with a crown on the cover. This Coronation Edition of the Book of Common Prayer arrives dressed for 1902: E R flanking the royal arms, and the date JUNE 26 AD 1902 stamped in gilt—the very day Edward VII was supposed to be crowned before a certain inconvenient appendix postponed the ceremony until August. Consider it a devotional with built-in historical footnote: prayer meets calendar, and the calendar blinks first.

Inside you get the sturdy poetry of Anglican worship—Collects that walk straight-backed, Psalms with the good timber smell, and services arranged with the efficiency of a parade ground. It’s the liturgy that launched a thousand Sundays, now with a royal flourish: suitable for pew, pocket, or procession, and ideal for those moments when you want your language to carry both grace and punctuation.

This copy bears the imprimatur of the Trustees of the Blackwell Charities, which means it once did good in the world before arriving here to do good again—by improving your shelf manners. Issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the venerable outfit that has been printing faith and footnotes since the age of wigs, it’s a neat specimen of Edwardian piety engineered for daily use rather than glass cases.

“Condition: Good” in Crappy Old Books parlance: a dignified, time-softened binding (the kind of maroon that says “I have attended services”), gilt still winking, pages sound and ready for responsive reading, with the agreeable patina of a century’s devotions. Pocketable, dependable, and infinitely less noisy than a marching band.

Buy it for the liturgy, keep it for the coronation quirk, and display it as proof that even when history reschedules, prayer keeps impeccable time. Crappy Old Books: suppliers of well-behaved volumes that wear their faith—and their monarchs—lightly in gold.

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