Lot 1026 , Bible. an early eighteenth century reading desk King James version - The Holy Bible...

° Bible. an early eighteenth century reading desk King James version - The Holy Bible... Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues... pictorial engraved general printed NT title, includes Apocrypha; old blind decorated calf (defective), ge. gilt decorated turn-ins and red silk e/ps., 4to. Oxford: printed by the University-printers, 1706. * Herbert 891; Pulham family (Harwich) notes on 3 commencing blanks
£100-140

Condition:
lower cover present but detached, spine worn; usual non obliterating stain and spots - but a noticeable/ heavy ne top rh. corner (over end of 3/4 lines) R-Kk4; some NT headlines cut close and fe lt. cropped; prob. lacks printed title. Additional and not called for (although sometimes present) before BCP. (A2-8, B-48, I4), most probably the University - Printers edition of 1706; this follows a pictorial engraved leaf - The Holy History (W Hollar fecit Londini), possibly from an edition of Casin's A Scholastical History of the Canon of Holy Scripture (1657-); after- index and tables (a-b8); End of Apocrypha articles of religion (2 leaves - K2 and K1), misbound together with the 2 final leaves of Maccabees.