Lot 1027 , Bible. A mid eighteenth century reading desk King James version - The Holy Bible

° Bible. A mid eighteenth century reading desk King James version - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments... printed general and NT titles, text decorations, decorated initial letters, includes Apocrypha; with index/tables and John Downame's concordance; preceded by Thos. Baskett's Book of Common Prayer (1749); contemp. red calf (distressed), gilt decorated covers and panelled spine, g.e and marbled e/ps, 4to. Oxford: printed by Thomas Baskett... 1749. * extra illustrated with Richard Ware's set of engravings (some 52 plates and 2 folded maps). Herbert 1083; Griffiths 1749 (1)
£80-120

Condition:
binding wear, spine damaged and upper board loose, bndg partially broken, f.f.e.p and BCP title and contents, Ware's pictorial engraved title, 2nd title (giving J.Cole as engraver) and Bakett's general title are loose, usual non obliterating stains, spots etc; Ware's plts plced throughout- as relevant, Ware 1st title with marginal clean tear and pasted on blank verso of Baskett's BCP. final leaf. BCP. signatures A-F8, G4, H2; Bible - A-Z8, Aa-Tt8, Uu4, A-K8, A-N8, 04. Herbert calls for the index, tables and Downame's Concordance (printed for R. Ware... 1745). Ownership at front of Nathaniel Clements (Dovercourt , 1803). The Ware plates have 4 images to each.