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Title: 1631 BIBLE in ENGLISH ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED Robert Barker OLD & NEW TESTAMENT 17c

Description: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised..., Appointed to bee [sic] read in Churches
Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, 1632/31
general title and New Testament title within decorative woodcut border (imprint to New Testament dated 1631 and with early manuscript to verso including signature of Thomas Lear dated 1717),
Apocrypha present,
black letter text,
N7 with horizontal closed tear,
2X1 torn to running title,
3E7 with closed tear to lower inner corner,
3B4 & 3B5 torn to corners with text loss,
3G2 torn at head with loss of running title,
3G4 with long closed tear,
3L5 torn to lower outer corner with loss and closed tear at head,
3O4 torn at foot with text loss,
few other lesser closed tears,
burn hole at head of 3M4-3M6,
verso of final leaf of Prophets (2S6) with early manuscript signatures including Barnard Wilson, Ann Wilson, and Tho. Millander,
letterpress marginal notes and running titles at fore-margins shaved throughout,
bound with at rear:
A Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation.
Serving for the more easier finding out of the most useful places therein continued...,
London: Printed by the Assignes of Clement Cotton, 1632
woodcut royal armorial to title,
bound with a defective 1632 Book of Psalms at rear,
bound with at front a defective genealogies by John Speed,
lacking A1 title,
with double-page woodcut map of Canaan,
some dust-soiling, minor toning, lacking free endpapers,
19th-century calf over earlier boards,
worn at head and foot of spine
4to: 6.5 BY 8.5" (21 x 15.5 cm)
Darlow & Moule 354; Herbert 460; STC 2300.
There are two varieties of the 1632 black letter 4to edition. Both have a misprint in Jer. viii. 22, blame for balme.
This example is variant A, with Ruth iii. 15 citie and heading of Deut. The fifth Booke...
Variant B has Ruth iii. 15 city and heading the Deut. The fifth booke...
Text in English

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1631 BIBLE in ENGLISH ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED Robert Barker OLD & NEW TESTAMENT 17c

Name: 1631 BIBLE in ENGLISH ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED Robert Barker OLD & NEW TESTAMENT 17c
SKU: 229072585
Price: 1000 USD
Availability: InStock