Lot 198 , [Holy Bible] The Holy Scriptures of the Olde and Newe Testamente; with the Apocripha: faithfully translated from the Hebrue and Greke by Myles Coverdale ...

° [Holy Bible] The Holy Scriptures of the Olde and Newe Testamente; with the Apocripha: faithfully translated from the Hebrue and Greke by Myles Coverdale ...
second modern edition. title (with arms in gold and colour) printed in red and black, engraved portrait, facsimile title page plate, half title: XVII, (4) and (1283)pp. recently rebound half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered panelled spine, gilt-decorated gauffered edges, roy, 4to. Samuel Bagster and Sons (1847)

£120-160

Condition:
Some intermittent foxing - almost all marginal, gen. good, new e/ps. and blanks; prelims. incl. Memoir of the Translator (not in the 1838 first, for which the copy is the lib. of the D. of Sussex was used); text printed within d-rules, orig. signatures not shown, some black letter (as in original), but the illus. (incl. the map) not reproduced Herbert 1866 (also 1825-1838 edtn. and 18-1535 edtn). Note -bef. the half title a coloured presentation leaf for Samuel Waldegrave on his appointment as Bp of Carlisle, with Salisbury diocesan clergy signatures on prev. page

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