Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
The Bible; that is, The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament. Engraved general title. Full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden (torn at bottom affecting border and lower outer corner of image). [4], 362; 361-444; 135, [6] leaves; lacks 2Z3.4 (Isaiah 17:13-24:18). 3 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary calf with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, brass bands, cornerpieces, catches, lacks clasps, spine defective; some marginal soiling and minor dampstains. 17th- and 18th-century owners' inscriptions on front endpapers. London: Robert Barker, (1612) [New Testament title dated 1611]

Additional Details

Geneva-Tomson-Junius version. Herbert 312; STC 2218. Bound with 1611 Barker edition of The Book of Common Prayer (Griffiths 1611/2), lacking the title, and 1612 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms with letterpress music (STC 2539), lacking the last leaf.