Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible; that is, The Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. General and New Testament titles within woodcut border; woodcut text illustrations and maps, including full-page depiction of the Garden of Eden on A4v. [4], 13-356, 359-626, [8] leaves; lacks leaves 1-12 (Genesis 1-28:25) and 357-358 (Ezekiel 30:16-34:12). Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 273x191 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather, quite worn, covers detached; margins trimmed close without text loss, contents heavily soiled with occasional dampstaining, lower outer corner of A4 restored affecting text on recto and Garden of Eden woodcut on verso, lower outer portion of leaves 242 and 369 torn off with substantial text loss, leaves 489-490 possibly supplied from another copy and frayed along fore and bottom edges with loss to sidenotes. Presentation inscription dated 1900 from Stephen S. Smith to Pacific Theological Seminary. sold as is. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson version. Herbert 225; Luborsky & Ingram/STC 2165. Bound with defective copy of 1594 Barker edition of The Book of Common Prayer (lacking around a third of the leaves, including general title), and 1595 Windet/Day edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in single-column black letter with letterpress music in text (lacking A3.4 and last 10 leaves).