Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
IN RESTORATION BINDING WITH PAINTED FORE EDGE (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. [438] leaves. 12mo, contemporary black morocco lavishly gilt-tooled to panel design with onlaid red morocco center- and cornerpieces and floral decoration, top of spine chipped, front joint cracked and crudely restored; few clean tears, scattered minor marginal stains, contents otherwise generally clean; gilt edges with fore-edge painting of floral design incorporating center wreath with legend "Elizabeth / Smith / 1680"; modern morocco slipcase. London: John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1679
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Authorized version; without the Apocrypha. Herbert 749. Bound with 1680 Bill/Newcomb/Hills edition of The Book of Common Prayer (A-S¹², not in Griffiths or ESTC) and 1679 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms.