Library’s prayers answered as stolen book is returned ... just 170 years later

Here’s one Old Testament reading with a happy ending — the prayer book stolen from a library returned after 170 or so years. 

Marsh’s Library, the oldest in the country, has just had the Book of Common Prayer, which was first bound and published in 1666, returned to it after someone pinched it from Dublin city centre reading room in 1840.

The library’s keeper, Jason McElligott, revealed it is just the eighth time any of the 1,200 books removed from the building over the centuries has found its way back home, highlighting the treasures still missing from its collection.