WILLIAM BURGES (1827-1881)
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1871
£8,316
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
tooled leather, hardstones, enamelled metal, the mounts made by Jes Barkentin, published Oxford University Press, 1871
Dimensions
19cm x 15cm
Provenance
Provenance: Lady Mary Vyner and Lady Ripon of Newby Hall, Yorkshire.
John Gilbert Getty (1968-2020)
with Paul Shutler
Footnote
Note: In 1870 Frederick Vyner (1847-1870) was kidnapped by bandits while travelling in Greece. A large ransom was demanded and, in part, collected before his eventual murder. In his honour his mother Lady Mary Vyner and his sister Lady Ripon used the unspent ransom to commission two churches and this book of common prayer from the architect William Burges whose design for this binding is now held in the collection of the RIBA.
The two churches commissioned are The Church of St Mary, Studley Royal and The Church of Christ the Consoler, Skelton-on-Ure, where identical armorial shields are incorporated into the architecture of the external buttresses. A memorial tablet for Frederick Vyner is in York Minster.