Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Apocrypha and NT titles within woodcut borders; full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden facing first page of Genesis; woodcut map of the Holy Land on page 4V5r. [16] (of [18]), 496 leaves, with the entire New Testament probably supplied from another copy; lacks the general title and A6 (September/October in the calendar). Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 377x250 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 morocco, worn; contents heavily soiled at beginning and end, scattered stains and marginalia, extensive crude marginal repairs on approximately the first 30 leaves with text loss on preliminaries, crude diagonal repair on 2R2 affecting Isaiah 25 and 26, last leaf of the Apocrypha reinforced along fore edge on verso, last 8 leaves in New Testament rehinged and remargined with some text supplied in manuscript. London: Robert Barker, 1602

Additional Details

Last edition of the Bishops' Bible, "presumably used by King James's translators as the basis of their new version"--Herbert 271.