Name: Auction: Bible; English; Authorised Version The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 2142 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, with the Former diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties Speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. Edinburgh: printed by the printers to the Kings most excellent Majestie, 1633. 8vo (16.9 x 10.6cm), pi2 A-2X8 2Y4 3A-3L8 3M4, contemporary Scottish binding of dark green morocco, rebacked and relined in the 19th century, arabesque centrepieces and spandrels gilt to covers, engraved frontispiece depicting the Fall (pi2), engraved title-page depicting Moses and Aaron (A1), pi1 (blank except for woodcut royal arms verso) bound before A2 (dedication to King James with list of books verso), letterpress title-page to New Testament with woodcut arms on verso (3A1), Book of Common Prayer (contemporary edition, lacking title-page) bound between general title-page (A1) and pi1, Whole Book of Psalmes (London: by G. M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1632, sigs. A-F8 G4) bound in at rear, bookplate of Christian D. Ginsburg to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions to initial blank, clasps and catches lacking, browning to head of frontispiece and general title, frontispiece with a few shallow nicks to head, general title with ownership inscription dated 1748 to top margin and a small white mark below, OT 2D7-8 with old repairs to fore margin, 2K8 with old repair to lower fore corner, Apocrypha (2O-2Y) with shorter margins, quires 2O-2P damp-stained with leaves 2O8-2P8 slightly extended in lower margins, a few other marks [Herbert 476]

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New

Bible; English; Authorised Version

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Bible; English; Authorised Version

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New

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