Sandys, George

Folio (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; 318 x 210 mm).  Printer's woodcut device on title-page (McKerrow 166), woodcut initials and headpieces, division titles for the paraphrases of the Psalms of David and the Lamentations of Jeremiah, music printing; large stain on T2, 3C3 spotted, minor worming in upper inner margin throughout. Contemporary calf paneled gilt, large gilt wreath on each cover, smooth spine double-ruled and lettered gilt, plain endpapers, edges sprinkled red; extremities rubbed, several old scrapes and gouges to boards, ties lost.

acquisition: Seven Gables, 1969

STC 212725; ESTC S116693; Pforzheimer 852

Folio (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; 318 x 210 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title-page (McKerrow 166), woodcut initials and headpieces, division titles for the paraphrases on the Psalms of David and the Lamentations of Jeremiah, music printing; large stain on T2 3C3 spotted, minor worming in upper inner margin throughout. Contemporary calf paneled gilt, large gilt wreath on each cover, smooth spine double-ruled and lettered gilt, palin endpapers, edges sprinkled red; extremities rubbed, several old scrapes and gouges to boards, ties lost.
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First edition, a large-paper copy, with the dedication to Charles I. The Psalms were set to music by Henry Lawes.