May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Engraved general title. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 187x118 mm, early 19th-century diced russia gilt preserving early 18th-century brass catches and clasps, rebacked retaining original backstrip; margins trimmed entering some headlines and direction lines, varying soiling throughout, occasionally heavy, dampstaining in lower margin of opening leaves, scattered stains elsewhere, paper corrosion in lower outer corner of title and next few leaves. Calligraphic ownership inscription of Robert Dewhurst dated 1709 on front flyleaf, initials R and D incised in the binding clasps; late 17th-/early 18th-century Dewhurst family register entries on otherwise blank verso of NT and metrical psalter titles. London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1707