Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Byble. [14] (of [20]), 112; 155; 2-190; 102; 149, [1] leaves, with Joshua-Job and Apocrypha titles and several leaves toward end supplied from another copy or edition, NT title supplied from the 1549 edition, very last leaf (end of table) supplied from another edition; lacks the general title and next 5 preliminaries, v4 (blank), 2A1 (title to Psalms-Malachi), and 3T4 (penultimate leaf of Revelation, replaced in manuscript). 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 300x195 mm, later reversed leather over wooden boards with metal center- and cornerpieces and catches, later crude lettering pieces, lacking clasps, recased, endpapers renewed, front cover detached, rear joint cracked and chipped; margins trimmed entering some headlines and sidenotes, contents toned and soiled with marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered marginal repairs occasionally affecting text. 17th- and 18th-century family records and miscellaneous inscriptions on verso of part titles and elsewhere. [London: Nicolas Hyll, 1551]

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"Matthew" version, originally published in 1537 under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew, combining the Tyndale and Coverdale translations. Herbert 92.