May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible. Engraved additional title with Richard Ware imprint; lacks letterpress general title. Thick 4to, modern black calf gilt; contents toned, with faint marginal dampstaining toward end of volume. Oxford: John Baskett, 1726

Additional Details

King James version, including the Apocrypha. Herbert 974. extra-illustrated with The Historical Part of the Holy Bible . . . Curiously Engrav'd by J. Cole, comprising pictorial title and 51 plates, each with 4 subjects. London: Richard Ware, later 1720s. Additionally bound with 1726 Baskett edition of The Book of Common Prayer, with engraved frontispiece portrait of George I and pictorial additional title (contents partly out of order, and with last 6 leaves placed between B1 and B2 in Genesis), and 1726 London edition printed by Ware of Downame's Brief Concordance.