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(ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New. Old and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the

(ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New. Old and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes. Black letter. 4to, contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards with brass fittings, rebacked at an early date, top of spine chipped, lacks clasps; contents toned, with marginal soiling and light dampstaining through most of volume, 18th-century manuscript family register on verso of New Testament title; 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625 [colophon dated 1624]

  • Notes: King James Version. Herbert 395 (after the accession of Charles I). Also bound in are an edition of The Book of Common Prayer circa 1619-25 with state prayer for King James (heavily dampstained, opening leaves loose, lacking first 6 leaves); the Genealogies, with the double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land (clean tear across title, map partly separated at top and bottom of fold); a 1625 Norton and Bill edition of Herrey's Concordance; and a 1622 Company of Stationers edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in black letter, with letterpress music in the text.

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