BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORIZED VERSION
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, FOURTH FOLIO EDITION, double column, black letter, general title within elaborate woodcut border, calendar printed in red and black, with Speed's Genealogies (without the engraved map), lacks NT title (4D1) and 13 leaves at end (after 5B5 Rev, with 10 of these replaced with leaves from another Black Letter folio edition, 3 of these defective, 2 loose, others frayed), title and opening few leaves with a few small wormholes and frayed at lower fore-edge (just touching image of title border, a few early ink children's sketches in lower border of title), part of margin torn away from leaf 5H1 with loss of side-note, tear to leaf 5Z5, approximately 30 leaves with small stain in lower margin but otherwise generally clean with good margins, contemporary reverse calf, very worn, upper cover near detached, some loss to spine [ESTC S102049; Herbert 487], folio (414 x 265mm.), Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1634
Footnotes:
Provenance: Ann Bateman, eighteenth/early nineteenth century child's ownership inscription and alphabet trials on front paste-down, and 5 drawings of faces with note 'Ann pict[...]' in lower margin of title-page; East Hordon Parish, remnants of morocco lettering label on lower cover.
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