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Silver Binding. The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others.
London: Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1641.
32mo, bound in contemporary boards covered in pink silk with silver filigree boards riveted in place at five locations, with silver spine panel and original clasps and catches present, aeg., the binding is openwork with surface engraved decoration, the background composed of looping stylized flower and vine forms on which figures in a hunting scene are arrayed, including a falcon, stag, rabbit, hound, and hunter with his horn, the same scene on both boards; old break to front cover very neatly mended, the board re-riveted after the repair, otherwise very good, housed in a leather-covered velvet-lined custom box with drop-down fore-edge, 3 x 2 in.
Wing B-2384A; ESTC R175309 listing five copies worldwide and citing only one U.S. location, at the Library of Congress.
