The Book of Common Prayer 1559

Personally, I would have preferred am original spelling version but modernized was arguably less distracting. If you read this book, be advised that there are both brief footnotes - primarily glosses on archaic vocabulary - and more substantial endnotes. There's a good history of the 1559 book following the edition proper, going back to the Edwardian prayer books and forward to the 1662, discussing their textual and doctrinal relationship.

Beautifully printed edition of the principal edition of the Book of Common Prayer published between the two books published during the reign of Edward VI and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. There's a very brief preface but the main body of the edition is followed by almost 50 pages on the history of this version of the BCP, about 30 pages of notes, and a very brief bibliography. The spelling (but not vocabulary) is modernized, about which I feel ambivalent, and there are brief glosses on archaic vocabulary.