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HOLBEIN, HANS. Icones Veteris Testamenti; Illustrations of the Old Testament. 90 woodcut illustrations by John and Mary Byfield after Holbein, each with accompanying Bible verse in English, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Half-title. 8vo, contemporary beige morocco gilt by Wickwar with scrollwork border on covers, navy silk doublures and endleaves, spine darkened and rubbed; minor foxing at beginning and end. London: (Charles Whittingham for) William Pickering, 1830
first pickering edition of Holbein's celebrated series of Bible illustrations;one of a small number of copies printed on india paper. Keynes, page 72; Ramsden (1956), pages 149-50. With the bookplate of William Henry Corfield (1843-1903), sold in the 1904 auction of his collection of fine bindings at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.
