Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Mostly printed in black letter. [512] leaves. 4to, remboîtage of 16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with later metal fittings, rebacked, lacks clasps; contents toned with occasional minor marginal soiling and dampstaining, New Testament title with narrow horizontal hole in center affecting a few words, and later 17th-century owner's inscriptions and scrawls on verso. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619(-20)

Additional Details

King James version. Herbert 365; STC 2253. Bound with 1615 Robert Barker edition of The Book of Common Prayer (Griffiths 1615/4), dampstained, lacking C2-7; undated edition of Speed's Genealogies (STC 23039d.7?), missing the map and one other leaf; 1620 Norton and Bill edition of Herrey's Concordance (STC 13235); and 1619 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms with letterpress music (STC 2564.6), lacking last 7 leaves.