Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Text of the New Testament . . . Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes . . . Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England. Edited by William Fulke. Title within woodcut historiated border. [42], 378, 381-914, [10] pages. Folio, 327x215 mm, contemporary calf with gilt arms of Queen Elizabeth I on covers, rebacked, outer corners of front cover restored, endpapers renewed, spine worn; light dampstaining in upper inner corners throughout, title and last leaf soiled, trimmed and mounted. London: Robert Barker, 1601

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Second edition of Fulke's 1589 refutation of the Rheims New Testament in the form of an annotated parallel presentation of the Rheims and Bishops' versions. Though officially banned in England, the Rheims text ironically gained wide exposure through Fulke's work and influenced the King James translation. Herbert 265.