Book of Common Prayer

A practical guide to using the Book of Common Prayer, without using technical language or assuming prior knowledge. It includes a history and theology of the BCP with practical advice on using its principal services.

This unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer includes the texts of three different versions, 1549, 1559, and 1662, to provide a panorama of the history of ritual in England from the Reformation to the present day. The first edition for the common reader, with full notes and introduction, this is one of the seminal texts of human experience.

A celebration of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, underlining its current and continuing relevance.

The complete 1662 services in 11-point type, slightly larger than our Standard Edition, in an attractive burgundy imitation leather hardback binding.

Originally published by the Prayer Book Society, this attractively illustrated volume brings together the collects of the Book of Common Prayer.