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  • Chapter 4 - Richard Grafton’s Edition (STC 16291)

  • Peter W. M. Blayney
  • Book:
    The Printing and the Printers of <I>The Book of Common Prayer</I>, 1549–1561
    Published online:
    24 December 2021
    Print publication:
    13 January 2022, pp 52-61

  • Summary

    It has recently been suggested that the Grafton edition of 1559 was not only the first of that year, but that it was printed even before Parliament sat. But the book not only quotes the Act of Supremacy accurately but its preliminaries also include the whole Act of Uniformity verbatim—and there are several other improbabilities and mistakes in that argument. This chapter also reveals that although every sheet of the 1552 book was duly reprinted in 1559 with the required revisions (each of which is discussed), Grafton had kept a large number of unused sheets from his last edition of 1552. Each of the surviving copies of his Elizabethan edition contains between one and twenty-three sheets recycled from his last Edwardian edition.