Book of Common Prayer

This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have considerable appeal to bibliographers and historians of Reformation and Tudor England.

An account of the rise and demise of a world classic, which still informs our common language as well as much of the great literature of the last four centuries.