May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, Apostles, and arms of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 213x155 mm, 17th-century panelled calf, worn, rebacked; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, varying soiling and dampstaining throughout, clean tear in 2Z5, rust hole in 3M7 affecting a few letters, last leaf mounted, with hole affecting last verse of Revelation and colophon. London: Robert Barker, 1613

Additional Details

first black-letter quarto edition of the King James version. Herbert 323. Bound with an undated edition of the Genealogies, complete with the map, corner off A3 affecting text; and a 1612 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in double-column black letter with letterpress music in the text, upper outer corner of final leaves gnawed with text loss, penultimate leaf mounted obscuring text on verso, last leaf lacking.