Lot 68
  • 68

Bede, The Venerable

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Bede, The Venerable
  • The Historie of the Church of England. St. Omers: [printed by Charles Boscard] for John Heigham, with permission of Superiors, 1622
  • paper
8vo (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.; 165 x 98 mm). Printer's ornament on title, woodcut decorative initial; fore-edge shaved touching a few side-notes, an occasional tiny marginal dampstain. Contemporary continental morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt-stamped oval central medallion of floral tools on each cover; extremities rubbed.

Provenance

acquisition: Bonhams, 12 June 2012, lot 3 (through Bernard Quaritch)

Literature

STC 1779; ESTC S101390

Condition

fore-edge shaved touching a few sidenotes, an occasional tiny marginal dampstain. Contemporary continental morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt-stamped oval central medallion of floral tools on each cover; extremities rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

Second edition of this translation, in a beautiful contemporary binding.