The 1843 illustrated Book of Common Prayer (full title: The Illustrated Book of Common Prayer) is an illustrated version of the 1790 edition Book of Common Prayer, the then-official primary liturgical book of the American Episcopal Church, edited by the Rev.

[2] 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.

Hewet's edition of the Prayer Book is bound in black morocco leather,[3] the cover features an embossed image of the Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

The book contains numerous engravings of works by Da Vinci, Dürer, Overbeck, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto and others serving as illustrations for historical subjects, as well as historiated and inhabited initials.

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.