Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
01-04 December 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/432
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1349 Bible. Bishops’. The Holy Byhble, conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe, black letter, double columns, jour titles within woodcut borders, full-page woodcut en verso, marginal note on Aiiij slightly defective, first title and calendar printed in ved and black, calf C. Barker, 1585 *.* Jeremiah vill, 22: “Is there not tryacle at Gilead.” 1350 Bipie, AUTHORIZED VERSION. ‘The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, black letter, double columns, with Calendar and Speed’s Genealogies, title to the New Testament within woodcut border (wants general title supplied in facsimile), last leaf wanting and supplied in facsimile, 5 ll. at end from a smaller copy (cut into at head and fore-margins mended), a few Il. slightly defective and a jew Il. mended, otherwise good sound copy, calf R. Barker, 1611 *,* FIRST EDITION of the Authorised version, probably the second issue. This copy has the “she” reading of Ruth iii, 15, and the misprints “oe” and “ Chkist ” in the dedication to King James. 1351 Bible, Authorized Version. Another edition, dlark {etter, double columns, with Calendar, Genealogies, etc. two titles within woodcut borders, date defaced on first title, wants 2 11. at end supplied in MN. facsimile, small portion of margin of last leaf of Apocrypha torn away with slight damage to head rule, small holes in a few Il., otherwise good sound copy, wooden boards covered with blind tooled calf, large brass clasps, brass corners and centre-pieces ib. 1617 1352 Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, .. . for the use of the Chureh of Scotland, black letter, woodcut initials, a few Ul. slightly damp-stained, otherwise good copy, with the catch- word “* Certaine” at end and the leaf hh 8 loosely inserted, mottled calf Edinburgh, 1637 1353 Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Church of England, with the Psalter, 2 parts in 1, chiefly black letter, engraved general title wanting, a few Ul. cut into at fore-edge, afew Il. slightly defective (some mended), jirst leat re-margined, last leaf backed, calf gilt By his Majesties Printers, 1662 *,.* FIRST EDITION of the Sealed Book of Charles II. 1354 Lodge (E.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 4 vol. FIRST EDITION, 240 portraits (some slightly fowed), green morocco gilt, g.é. 1821-34 1355 Dugdale (Sir W.) Monasticon Anglicanum, a new edition, by J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, 6 vol. in 8, engraved titles, numerous plates, some Il. slightly foxed, 1817-30; The History of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, with a continuation by H. Ellis, portrait, plates, some Ul. fowed, 1818 ; together 9 vol. red morocco (a little rubbed), gilt, g. e. 1817-30
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