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(BIBLE. POLYGLOT.) Biblia sacra polyglotta. Edited by Brian Walton. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton and pictorial additional title in Volume 1, which also contains a double-page map of the Holy Land, double-page plan of Jerusalem, 3 double-page plates (2 of the Temple, the third showing religious artifacts), and single-page plan of the Temple, all by Wenceslaus Hollar. 6 volumes. Folio, 447x279 mm, contemporary calf gilt, worn, portions missing from spines, raised bands partly worn through; dampstaining in gutters throughout, varying browning of text and engraved matter, scattered later marginalia, worming through Volume 1 preliminaries causing slight text loss, minor worming in blank lower margins at beginning and end in Volume 6. Signatures of the Unitarian minister Francis Parkman, Sr. (1788-1852), father of the historian of the same name; 19th-century bookplates of Meadville Theological School (Parkman gift), their perforated stamp and rubberstamp on titles. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1655-57
"The fourth and last of the great Polyglots; known as the London, or Walton's Polyglot. Though less sumptuously printed than the Antwerp and Paris Bibles, this is the most accurate and best-equipped of the great Polyglots" (Darlow & Moule). Without the 2-volume Lexicon Heptaglotton by Edmund Castell sometimes found with Walton's edition. Volume 1 of this set has both the "Republican" preface acknowledging Oliver Cromwell's role in the duty-free importation of paper for this edition, and the "Loyal" preface omitting mention of Cromwell. Darlow & Moule 1446.
