[BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, in English]. -- [BEER, John T. (1862?-1900), fore-edge painting artist]. The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: And other Rite and Ceremonies of the Church of England. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1629. [Bound with:] The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Thomas and John Buck, 1630. [Bound with:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1629. AN ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE of the work of the fore-edge artist John T. Beer, a successful Merseyside clothier and book collector, who turned to fore-edge painting in his retirement, producing more than 200 fore-edge paintings and painted bindings between 1884 and 1900. Given Beer?s background as a clothier, the style of the painting echoes a tapestry. See The Fore-Edge Paintings of John T. Beer by Jeff Weber (Los Angeles, 2005). STC 16374.