Lot 94
  • 94

Bible in English [King James Version, Quarto "She"]

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. London: Robert Barker, 1613
  • ink,paper,leather
4to (8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.; 213 x 159 mm). Roman type, text in double columns, 57 lines to the full column, within ruled borders, enclosed inner and outer margins for printed side-notes, general and New Testament titles in heart-shaped centers within the same woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; lacking Aaa1,8, moderate browning and staining, most pronounced in first two quires of OT, and in NT, expert repairs to tears on both titles, a few short tears slightly affecting text (most repaired), hole on Bb6 costing a word or two. Bound with: Speed's Genealogies (imperfect, but has the map of Canaan). Nineteenth-century divinity calf, marbled endpapers, edges stained red; covers scuffed, upper joint dry and cracking, upper hinge cracked.

Provenance

Records of the Fox family, (1790–1925, with Quaker numeric dating system)

Literature

STC 2228; ESTC S116976; Herbert 324

Condition

4to (8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.; 213 x 159 mm). Roman type, text in double columns, 57 lines to the full column, within ruled borders, enclosed inner and outer margins for printed side-notes, general and New Testament titles in heart-shaped centers within the same woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; lacking Aaa1,8, moderate browning and staining, most pronounced in first two quires of OT, and in NT, expert repairs to tears on both titles, a few short tears slightly affecting text (most repaired), hole on Bb6 costing a word or two. Bound with: Speed's Genealogies (imperfect, but has the map of Canaan). Nineteenth-century divinity calf, marbled endpapers, edges stained red; covers scuffed, upper joint dry and cracking, upper hinge cracked.
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Catalogue Note

In this edition, Genesis 1:11 has "bring forth" and Ruth 3:15 "she went."