Dec 06, 2001 - Sale 1917

Sale 1917 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New<> [without The Genealogies<>]. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes. Black letter. Folio, 378x250 mm, old reversed calf, worn, covers detached. 19th-century manuscript family register on verso of 3T5. London: Robert Barker, 1613

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"The true 1613 folio edition of King James's Bible; easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type"--Herbert 322. Margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes and catchwords, occasional soiling and marginal dampstains, paper corrosion along fore edge of preliminaries, leaves of calendar and very end of New Testament badly frayed with text loss, ²B4-5 torn in lower inner corners and 3X3 in lower outer corner affecting text, clean tear across 4C3, 4L2 bound verso to recto, lacks ¹B6, 4F1.6, and 4N4.<