?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The.holie.Bible. New Testament title within woodcut ornamental border; text woodcuts chiefly after the illustrations by Virgil Solis for the 1560 Frankfurt Luther Bible. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 378x254 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century sheep, quite worn, spine damaged; margins trimmed entering sidenotes, varying soiling and dampstaining throughout, first leaf of Genesis torn with substantial text loss, scattered marginal tears and repairs occasionally affecting text, some leaves loose. (London: R. Jugge), [1568]
first edition of the bishops' bible. "This revision by bishops and scholars under the direction of Archbishop Parker replaced the Great Bible as the version authorized for church use . . . The most lavishly illustrated of the folio Bibles, it contains 127 narrative cuts, most copied from a series by the German illustrator Virgil Solis"--Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 2099. Herbert 125; STC 2099. lacks the general title and 9 other preliminaries, 2 blanks, and 55 text leaves (Isaiah 16:11-28:25, Jeremiah 27:7-35:12, Ezekiel 31:19-Daniel 1:17, Daniel 11:6-Hosea 13:16, 2 Esdras 9:1-15:38, Acts 2:39-13:3, and Revelation 7:8-22:21), most of these (apart for the preliminaries and blanks) replaced with the corresponding leaves from a folio edition of the King James Bible. sold as is.
