Sep 23, 2004 - Sale 2013

Sale 2013 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ENGLISH.) The Byble. General and New Testament titles within elaborate wide woodcut historiated border; 3 divisional titles within composite woodcut historiated border; numerous column-width text woodcuts. Black letter. Folio, 370x245 mm, old blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, rebacked, spine ends chipped, covers detached; upper and lower margins crudely trimmed with some headlines cropped, marginal dampstaining with paper corrosion and occasional restoration through approximately first quarter of volume with loss of some sidenotes but text otherwise unaffected, general and New Testament titles frayed or torn with loss to border and mounted, general title heavily darkened, clean tear in 2A5 and 3F6, last index leaf reinforced on verso in blank lower margin, lacks preliminaries following the general title. London: Edward Whitchurch, 1541
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