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7 Jun 2011
14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
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Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 18847
BIBLE, in English, Matthew's Version
[The Holy Bible], black letter, double column, general title printed in red and black (defective), 2 part titles and New Testament title, all within woodcut historiated borders, woodcut illustrations and decorative initials throughout, lacking 2 leaves (AA2 and AAa8 blank), 27 leaves defective with some loss of text, some dampstaining and soiling, eighteenth century blindstamped panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed [Herbert 74; STC 2077], 4to, John Daye and William Seres, 1549
Sold for
£6,600
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A reprint of Matthew's Bible of 1537, with the notes revised and edited by Edmund Becke, and with Tyndale's prologue to Jonah reprinted for the first time since 1531. It contains the well-known note relating to the role of women at the end of I Peter iii "And yf she be not obedient and healpfull unto hym endevoureth to beate the feare of God into her heade, that therby she maye be compelled to learne her duitie and do it".
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