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The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, …
Description
Engraved general title page (1640) with engraved border featuring the twelve Tribes and the twelve Disciples. Text ruled in red throughout in two column Roman font. Genesis 1 with small woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Without Apocrypha, likely removed before it was first bound. Similar New Testament title page (1639). Bound with the Whole Booke of Psalms (1640) with printed title page and border.
Collation
A-Z^8, Aa-Pp^8 (Old Testament), Bbb-Nnn^8 (New Testament). Complete with both title pages.
Binding
Rebacked black goatskin with original spine laid down. Boards elaborately and extensively decorated in gilt with rolls and drawer handle tools with central lozenge surrounded by a paneled border. Metal bosses and eight cornerpieces with the words “Recordare Matrem Jane Strode” (Remembering Mother Jane Strode) to upper and lower boards. Metal hasps with evidence of clasps. All edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers.
Condition
Ex-libris stamp of David Parsons to front free endpaper. Clean and bright throughout, with no notable flaws. An excellent example, far better than typically seen, in a lovely period binding.
References
Herbert 546; STC 2342.