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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
Engraved title page (1606) with a woodcut border comprising twenty-four small compartments showing the tents of the twelve tribes as well as the figures of the twelve apostles. Title is enclosed within a heart-shaped frame. Text in two column black letter. With Apocrypha as issued. New Testament title page (1606) 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 (1605). Bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins with printed title page (1605) and printer’s device. First chapter woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
[par]^2, A-Z^8, Aa-Zz^8, Aaa-Hhh^8, Iii^2, *^4, Kkk-Zzz^10. Complete.
Binding
Contemporary brown double paneled calf. Rebacked with majority of original spine laid down. Covers with centerpiece floral design surrounded by ruled rectangular border featuring corner fleurons. Plain endpapers. All edges speckled red. Corners bumped, lightly rubbed.
Condition
Soiling and staining, most prevalent in the Pentateuch and the historical books; some of the headlines through Psalms are trimmed or cropped; Yy3,8 repaired tears without loss; repair to final leaf of Psalter. A good, clean copy of the Breeches Bible.
Provenance
Business card of Graham Wenman to front pastedown; note to verso of final Apocryphal leaf reads “His book God give him grace thereon to look, and not to look but understand, for learnings is better than house and land, when house and land is gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.” Another note to verso of title page to Tables reads “Samrose Whatley is my name.”
References
Herbert 287.