Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
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. [16], 904 pages. 4to, old calf, worn, rebacked retaining later(?) backstrip, front cover detached; contents toned with occasional minor marginal dampstaining, scattered early scrawls, some headlines and sidenotes shaved, rust holes in a few leaves affecting a few letters, general title and A3 mounted, 2Q4.5 torn in upper and outer margins with slight text loss, some chipping along fore edge of 2Z4-6, lacks 3C3-6 (Luke 12:36-21:37). London: Robert Barker and Assigns of John Bill, 1634

Additional Details

One of at least 3 variants of a new form of quarto King James Bible in black letter. Herbert 490. STC 2313b. Bound with 1633 Barker and Bill edition of The Book of Common Prayer (double columns, black letter, [pi]A8 A-E8 F6; not in Griffiths or ESTC); 1632 Clement Cotton edition of Downame's Concordance (STC 7128); and 1635 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms with letterpress music (STC 2656), lacking last 6 leaves.