Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?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 contained in the Old and New Testament. General, Prophets, and NT titles within woodcut ornamental border; woodcut text illustrations and maps, including full-page depiction of the Garden of Eden on A4v. [632] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 276x187 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century panelled calf, worn, front joint cracked, cords intact; margins trimmed entering headlines toward beginning, top of Garden of Eden woodcut, and scattered sidenotes, contents relatively clean apart from isolated stains and minor repairs not affecting text, lower outer corner off 2P5 and 4R5 and lower inner corner off 5E1-6, all with text loss. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Sir Francis L. H. Goodricke, Bart. London: Robert Barker, 1610

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson version. Herbert 301. Bound with 1611 Barker edition of The Book of Common Prayer (opening leaves dampstained and heavily creased, few clean tears repaired) and 1605 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms printed in single-column black letter with letterpress music in text, with woodcut historiated title border (lacking last 4 leaves with prayers and tables).