Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
The Text of the New Testament . . . Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Seminarie at Rhemes . . . Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England. Edited by William Fulke. [23], 496, [5] leaves, with title supplied in facsimile on laid paper. Folio, 17th-century calf, rebacked, cover fore edges and corners worn through, endpapers renewed; light marginal dampstaining through most of volume. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589

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first fulke edition, giving the Bishops' version and the Rheims New Testament in parallel columns. "It was the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to refute the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582"--Herbert 202. STC 2888.