The 1843 illustrated ''Book of Common Prayer'' (full title: ''The Illustrated Book of Common Prayer'') is an illustrated version of the 1790 edition ''

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'', the then-official primary liturgical book of the

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, edited by Rev. J. M. Wainwright, printed and published by H. W. Hewet, a New York-based engraver and publisher, and certified by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk on December 18th, 1843.

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The full name of the 1843 illustrated ''Book of Common Prayer'' is ''The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments; and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David''.

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Hewet's edition of the Prayer Book is bound in black

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, the cover features an embossed image of the Trinity Church in

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, New York City. The book contains numerous engravings of works by

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, Dürer,

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, Poussin,

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and others serving as illustrations for historical subjects, as well as

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and

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s. Chapter title pages and openers are decorated with illustrations of, mostly, British cathedrals and churches, either exterior or interior, set in architectural borders and niches.

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's illustrations for the

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are mostly set in an

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setting. This illustrated edition was the basis of the 1845 Standard Edition of the 1790 prayer book, upon which the Standard Edition of 1845 was prepared and corrected.

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