Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his Followers. [2], lxiv, 687, [1]; [2], 888; [2], 897, [1]; [2], 681, [1], [681b]-695b, [1], [683]-749, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 4 volumes. 4to, 318x258 mm, contemporary tree sheep, rebacked, hinges reinforced, bindings quite worn overall; contents generally clean apart from isolated minor foxing, and slight soiling on title and next leaf in Volume 4. Old stamps of the Wigan Free Public Library on titles, their bookplate on pastedowns. Oxford: University Press, 1850

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first complete edition of the earlier and later Wycliffe versions, which are printed here in parallel columns. Herbert 1876.