Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 7,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The . holie . Bible. Woodcut illustrations and maps in text. [24] (of [25]), 270; 189 [i. e., 190]; 105, [1]; 138, [2] leaves; lacks the general title and double-page map. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 408x275 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass center- and cornerpieces, brass catches, lacking clasps, spine ends damaged, vertical crack in front cover; generally an attractive copy internally with only intermittent marginal soiling and dampstaining, most noticeably at beginning and end, preliminaries loose, ²E8 torn and restored in outer margin with partial loss of sidenote on recto and a few other letters, ²R1 (with woodcuts of scenes from Revelation on verso) rehinged, few small holes through last leaf minimally affecting colophon and printer's device, old ink smudges and scrawls on blank verso. (London: Richard Jugge, 1572)

Additional Details

Second folio edition of the Bishops' version. Herbert 132; STC/Luborsky & Ingram 2107; ESTC S121300.