Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, AND WITH PAINTED FORE-EDGE DECORATION (ENGLISH.) The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [192] leaves. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, contemporary black morocco gilt-tooled to cottage roof design with silver center- and cornerpieces, the front centerpiece incised with the monogram LW, spine ends worn, front joint starting at top and bottom; gilt edges, with crude floral pattern painted on fore edges. Later 19th-century ownership inscription of Alec Thomson Grant of The Red House, Wemyss Castle, Fife. London: Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1674
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Not found in Herbert. Bound in front is a 1676 Bill and Barker edition of The Book of Common Prayer (Griffiths 1676/2), extra-illustrated with extraneous engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles II and 47 (of ?) contemporary plates of biblical scenes, and with 4-leaf Private Devotions at the Administration of the Holy Communion (London: Henry Bonwicke, 1704, not found in ESTC) also inserted. Bound in back is a 1677 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms.