Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
FRY, FRANCIS. A Description of the Great Bible, 1539, and the Six Editions of Cranmer's Bible, 1540 and 1541, printed by Grafton and Whitchurch; also of the Editions, in Large Folio, of the Authorized Version . . . printed in the Years 1611, 1613, 1617, 1634, 1640 . . . Together with an Original Leaf of Each of the Editions Described. 14 original leaves from 7 editions of the Great Bible and 7 editions of the King James version; 51 facsimile plates, partly printed in red; folding table, reinforced along outer edges on verso. Folio, 412x275 mm, later 19th-century cloth; free endpapers browned. Old stamps of the Bristol Baptist College Library on front endleaves. first edition. London & Bristol, 1865