Lot 280 , BIBLE: An Oxford later 18th century lectern Bible, with John Sturt engravings. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and the New Testaments... Appointed to be read in c, hurches. general and NT. printed titles, Sturt pictor

° BIBLE: An Oxford later 18th century lectern Bible, with John Sturt engravings. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and the New Testaments... Appointed to be read in c
hurches. general and NT. printed titles, Sturt pictorial engraved title (as frontis.), 5 folded maps, a folded pictorial plan of Solomon's Temple and 131 plates (with pictorial engraved illus. beneath); contemp. gilt decorated red calf, covers with gloriole centres circling oval black and green morocco inlay (with sacred monogram and cherubim surround), panelled spine lettered direct, marbled e/ps., 4to. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press...and sold by W. Dawson, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, London, 1783
£160-200

Condition:
Some spine wear and a lt. to covers (with some scratches), joints tender and front inner hinge cracked, dedication leaf and first map (following title) loose, ded. leaf frayed with tears at fore-edge (text just saved), text mostly clean, plts offset mostly inoffensive, title frayed at lower edge - but well clear of printing. Maps mostly pictorial - I (at front) good; 2 (Gen.2) good; 3 (Nehemiah), Temple Plan, side and lwr. edges cut close/cropped and sm. tears, sl. loss; 4 (N.T. title) rh. edge sl. cropped and sm. tears, with sl. loss; 5 (MarkI) v.sl. loss lh. edge; 6 (Acts I) good. Collates complete, unpaged, Bible text ends 6U2, Index/Tables end 6Z4. Plts. have 2 images each (i.e.262 illus); see Herbert 1286 (and 1287). The Clarendon printers were W. Jackson and A. Hamilton; Sturt's (undated) title has 'Sold by W. Dawson...' Incl. Apocrypha, d.col. printing

Sold for £190