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CONTEMPORARY EMBROIDERED BINDING (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Whole Booke of Davids Psalms, Both in Prose and Meeter. Letterpress music in text. 439, [9] pages. 16mo, contemporary linen over pasteboard embroidered with silver thread and painted with all-over design of birds and flowers, cover fore edges frayed; later 18th-century owner's inscription on title verso, R6 torn in lower margin affecting bottom line of text; gilt edges, gauffered to pointillé chain mail pattern. STC 2661. London: T. C. for the Company of Stationers, 1635
Scarce pocket edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, with the Great Bible prose version printed in the margins. STC 2661; ESTC locates multiple copies in Great Britain, only the Folger, Huntington, and NYPL copies in the United States.
