Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 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, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes. [445] (of [448]) leaves; lacks 2C2 (Proverbs 4:8-9:20) and 2C4.5 (Proverbs 12:26-21:1). Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 167x110 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers quite worn, free endpapers renewed; contents toned and soiled, scattered stains, marginalia, and scrawls, occasional worming in lower inner corners entering some sidenotes, lower outer corner off first 2 leaves of Genesis with slight text loss, clean tear in C8 and 2R8, outer portion torn off P8-Q1 with substantial loss of text in 1 Kings 13:21-16:31, Q6 torn in outer margin slightly affecting sidenotes, blank lower margin torn off 2F3, blank lower outer corner off 2P7. London: Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1632

Additional Details

King James version. Herbert 469. Bound with incomplete and unidentified editions of The Book of Common Prayer and Genealogies in front, and a 1633 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms printed in double-column roman type with letterpress music in text (outer portion of title torn off, last 3 leaves lacking).