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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613 image 1
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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION

The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New, black letter, general title within wide woodcut historiated border, Kalendar printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, lacks NT title (3T1), bound with Speed's Genealogies, title toned and with 3 opening preliminary leaves slightly creased, small burnhole touching one letter on A3, short marginal tear to 3V3, rule border at head of 4H6 shaved, some damp-stains to approximately 35 leaves (heaviest to marginal area of Kalendar, Genealogies and final 8 leaves) but generally clean, early blind-panelled calf, metal corner-pieces (2 missing), later leather and metal straps and clasps, rebacked, worn [ESTC S122066; Herbert 322], folio (398 x 260mm.), Robert Barker, 1613

Footnotes

BLACK LETTER FOLIO EDITION OF THE KING JAMES "SHE" BIBLE, with the reading "She went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15. Herbert notes that "From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James' version reigned without rival", and that this the true 1613 folio edition of King James's Bible is "easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type", having 72 lines rather than 59 to the full column.

Provenance: Sarah Husband, ownership inscription dated 1762 on title; Buckfast Abbey.

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