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Bible. King James, True 1613 Folio Edition
Bible. King James, True 1613 Folio Edition
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[THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTEYNING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINALL TONGUES. London: Robert Barker, 1613. With ample margins, 16.25" x 10.5". C6, D4; A-4M6, 4N4 (wanting initial leaves A-B4, which includes the general title and several leaves of the calendar). Bound with Genealogies and map by John Speed [1611]: [2], 34, [4, double-page map of Canaan] pp. Handsome early calf over beveled wooden boards, stamped in blind and with brass corner and centerpieces, lacks clasps and some metal-work missing, rebacked with edges rubbed, structurally sound. Overall, contents are Good+ with marginal thumbing and soiling, some corner-chips/closed tears in places, though the following notable flaws are: (Calendar, prelims) some dampstaining and repairs; (Genealogies) Map with marginal chipping with some loss, and leaf depicting Adam and Eve with long closed tear, title with upper margin cropped; (Bible) Aa3 with tissue repair of long closed tear, Gg6 with small hole removing 2 letters, Oo6 with chip removing last couple of words from 9 lines of text, 4 leaves with old marginal paper repairs, final leaf laid down, last 10 leaves with chips partially removing headlines and a few words of text in a few cases, later 1/3 of New Testament with dampstaining (mostly to upper portion.) ** Provenance: Ink signatures of Edward Meredith in several places, dated in the mid-1700s. ******************************* Black letter King James Bible. "THE TRUE 1613 FOLIO EDITION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE; easily distinguishable from other folio editions by its smaller type... with 72 instead of 59 lines to the full column" -- (Herbert 322.) Interestingly, the map was taken from a 1611 edition of the Genealogies.
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