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Credit: Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A FINE NEEDLEWORK BINDING 18. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments Newly Trans- lated out of the Original Tongues. And with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised. Engraved title-page. by W. Hainsworth. 12mo, needle- work in colored silk by the Nuns of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, over un- dressed leather; gilt edges. In cloth folding box. London: James Flesher, 1657. $300.00 RARE. Wing B-2251 notes copies in the British Museum and Cambridge University only, none in this country. Bound with the Bible is: The Whole Book of Psalms. ... Printed by the Companie of Stationers, London, 1653. Of this, Wing B-2449 locates only the copy in the British Museum. The elaborately embroidered binding, depicting two kneeling figures, branches, and flowers, the faces and hands of satin, is well preserved for such fragile work. It was exe- cuted in the binding establishment started by Nicholas Ferrar at Little Gidding during the reign of Charles I. The volume is ruled in red throughout, with a note on the baptism of Judith Bourne at end of the Old Testament, and her ownership note, dated 1683, at end of volume. Large coat-of-arms painted inside the front cover. [See Illustration, opposite page.] 19. BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Genealogiae Deorum. 295 leaves (including one blank), Roman type, capitals supplied in blue. Folio, old sprinkled calf, rebacked; red edges. Venice: Vindelin de Spira, 1472. $385.00 EDITIO PRINCEPS of Boccaccio’s most important Latin work. THE FIRST GREAT TREATISE ON CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY and the earliest modern handbook on the subject. Its allegorical treatment of the old legends must have given it a peculiar interest in the eyes of the author’s contemporaries. This is a copy of the first issue (see Gesamtkatalog 4475, note). The first ten leaves containing the Tabula are remargined without loss of text, and so is the lower blank part of the first two leaves of text. Otherwise this is a very pleasant, large copy, with a few contemporary marginal notes and a few water-stains here and there, but generally very clean and white. The first page of text has a pretty, lateral Renaissance border painted in various colors, slightly shaved at top. Stillwell B-669; GKW 4475; Hain 3315; Sarton III /2, 1805-1806. EGA](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33160296_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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