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The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers Languages. With most profitable Annotations…
Description
General title page (1589) with a woodcut border featuring Lady Justice and Mercy at the top and the lion and dragon at the bottom. Text in two column black letter. With Apocrypha as issued. New Testament title page (1589) with similar woodcut border. Ends on colophon. With Two Right Profitable and Fruitful Concordances by R[obert] F. H[errey] with printed title page and colophon (n.d.). First chapter woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
[par]^2, A-Z^8, Aa-Zz^8, Aaa-Yyy^8, Zzz^10.
Binding
Rebound in brown blind paneled calf. Covers elaborated decorated with blind tools and rolls. Spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated in blind, and a green morocco label with the words “Holy Bible” lettered in gilt, the date to spine. Marbled endpapers. Inner dentelles. All edges speckled red.
Condition
Occasional spotting and staining; A1 (Genesis 1) closed tear to text without loss; about twenty leaves with lower corner loss (Bb, Dd, Ff, first few leaves of NT), reducing a few letters of sidenotes; Ddd1 (Apocrypha) large tear with text loss; Kkk3 loss to sidenotes with repaired closed tear; Kkk4 lower corner repair; trimmed.
References
Herbert 200.