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GIFT FROM FRANCIS FRY TO HIS GRANDSON The bible in English. Prophets, Hagiographa, and New Testament titles within type ornament, woodcut architectural, and woodcut historiated borders, respectively. Large woodcut of St. John on Patmos on verso of last leaf. Text printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. 4to, 190x134 mm, 19th-century 1/2 black calf, spine attractively gilt; some soiling and light dampstaining, scattered marginal repairs or restoration with sidenotes partly in facsimile on a few leaves, some leaves (including New Testament title) probably supplied from other copies, lacks the general title, following 15 preliminaries, one blank leaf, and 2-leaf table at end. [London: J. Cawood, 1569?]
Great Bible version, one of at least 3 Cawood editions tentatively assigned to this date. Herbert 128. With a note from the Bible bibliographer Francis Fry tipped to the front pastedown: "[Lea] Wilson's Catl. No. 32. Cranmer's Version by Cawood 1569. Perfect from the 1st Genesis to the End of Revelation. This is a rare edition no perfect copy is known. F Fry. PA Barclay from his loving Grandfather Francis Fry Cotham . . . 1882."
