Douai-Rheims version.- Bible, English.- The New Testament of Iesus Christ faithfully translated into English...By the English Colledge then resident in Rhemes, 'fourth edition, enriched with pictures', engraved additional pictorial title and 7 full-page engraved illustrations by Picquet and Michel van Lochom, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f. at end, additional title trimmed and laid down, trimmed at head, touching the odd page number or headline, stained, lightly browned, [Herbert 479; STC 2946], [Rouen], John Cousturier, 1633; Bible, English. The Holy Bible faithfully translated into English out of the authentical Latin, 2 vol., woodcut device to titles, woodcut decorative initials, privilege / errata f. at end of vol.2, lacking additional engraved titles in both vol. and final f. (relating to tables and errata) in vol.1, first title with repair with loss of 1 letter and with small repairs to edges, second title with repair to lower corner with loss of border, spotting and staining, lightly browned, [Herbert 499; Darlow & Moule 387; STC 2321], [Rouen], Printed by John Cousturier, 1635, uniformly bound in 19th century blind-stamped calf, some covers detached, parts of backstrips loosely inserted, worn, 4to

⁂ Second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament, which had first been published in Douai in 1609.

Provenance: NT: James Atkinson (1759-1839, Surgeon, of York), inscription to aii (Preface to Reader), 'Atkinson' bookplate; OT: 'Will Johnston bought this book 1712' (inscription to final leaf of first vol.); NT: John Macfarlane, Writer to the Signet (bookplates in both vol.); James Dix, of Bristol, 'Biblical Collection' (bookplate dated 1850 in each vol.).