Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The.holie.Bible. New Testament title within woodcut ornamental border; text woodcuts chiefly after the illustrations by Virgil Solis for the 1560 Frankfurt Luther Bible. [3]-128; 185, [1]; 204 [i. e., 202]; 118; 159 [i. e., 157] leaves, with first 6 leaves, leaves 181-182 in part 2, and last 20 leaves supplied from another copy; lacks title, next 27 leaves, leaves 17-18 in part 3, and final blank. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 398x265 mm, modern panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked with morocco; some sidenotes shaved, dark stains on leaves 59 and 62 in part 1, inscription inked over on verso of part 2 title, marginal repairs at beginning and end with significant text loss on several leaves, including end of Revelation and table, few leaves elsewhere torn affecting text. (London: R. Jugge), [1568]

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first edition of the bishops' bible. "This revision by bishops and scholars under the direction of Archbishop Parker replaced the Great Bible as the version authorized for church use . . . The most lavishly illustrated of the folio Bibles, it contains 127 narrative cuts, most copied from a series by the German illustrator Virgil Solis"--Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 2099. Herbert 125; STC 2099.