Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible. That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. General and NT titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Tribes of Israel, the Evangelists, and the Apostles; woodcut illustrations and maps in text. [4], 190; [1], 181 [i. e., 196]; 121, [11] leaves, including initial leaf, blank except for signature A on recto. 4to, 211x151 mm, early 19th-century calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, front joint cracked at top, cover corners worn through; contents soiled, sometimes heavily, scattered marginalia and ink stains, small hole through a few words in 2B3, sidenotes shaved on 2C5 and 2I5-6, 17th-century inscriptions on verso of NT title showing through on recto, lower outer corner of 3A3 torn and repaired slightly affecting sidenote, 3B3 torn in outer margin with text loss. London: Robert Barker, 1609

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version. "Judas" Bible, with John 6:67 reading, "Then said Judas to the twelve, Will ye also goe away?" (corrected to "Jesus" in ink in this copy). Herbert 298. Bound with unidentified edition of The Book of Common Prayer, incomplete at beginning, and 1609 Companie of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms with letterpress music in text.