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From the President of the Historical Society
The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church has been proud to be a co-sponsor of the new Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1549-1999 by Dr. David N. Griffiths, retired Canon Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral, that has recently been published by the British Library in England and the Oak Knoll Press in the U.S.A.
This magisterial and definitive work is a volume of some 639 pages (including sixty black and white illustrations and sixteen plates in color). It lists in detail over 15,000 different editions of the Prayer Book with a total of about 180,000 different printings, covering every edition from 1549 down to 1999 in English and in some 199 foreign languages. (Thus,...