Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible; that is, The Holy Scriptures. Woodcut text illustrations and maps, including full-page depiction of the Garden of Eden on A4v. [4], 361, [1], 359-362, 361-444, 135, [7] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 324x211 mm, later 17th-century black morocco handsomely gilt with silver center- and cornerpieces, catches, and clasps, unidentified arms and crest incised on centerpieces, minor wear to extremities, one cornerpiece lacking; contents generally clean with only a few minor stains and early marginalia, border on title and Garden of Eden woodcut cropped at bottom, the latter with repaired clean tear in gutter, small rust holes in 4A5-6 affecting a few words in sidenotes. Armorial bookplate of Edwin Sutcliffe pasted over another bookplate. handsome copy. London: Robert Barker, 1616

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version. Herbert 348. Bound in front is a 1616 Barker Book of Common Prayer. Title within elaborate woodcut border. [32] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. Repaired clean tears in 2 leaves. Griffiths 1616/1. At the end is a 1624 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms, printed in double-column roman type with letterpress music in the text. [2]. 114 [i. e., 113], [7] (of [9]) pages; lacks last (blank?) leaf. STC 2585.