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BIBLE, in English, Geneva Version, with Tomson's New Testament
The Bible. That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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BIBLE, in English, Geneva Version, with Tomson's New Testament

The Bible. That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament, woodcut vignette on General and New Testament titles, woodcut map and a few illustrations, additional engraved frontispiece before title, early inscription mentioning William Gostlet (died 1608) on front free endpaper, bookplate of Gostlet Harington of Marshfield (1706) and Captain Harington on verso of general title (recto with paper repair touching a few letters, but generally a good, clean copy with wide margins), seventeenth century red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border, enclosing two panels, the outer with floral tool at coners, the inner with leaf tool, the spine divided into seven panels, lettered in one, the others ornately gilt tooled, g.e., worn at extremities with some loss to extremities of spine [STC 2168; Herbert 235], folio, Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1597

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