finely bound by Hering
[HERING BINDING]; WHITBY, Daniel.
A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament. In two volumes. Second edition. The first, containing the Four Gospels, and the Acts of the Holy Apostles. The Second, all the Epistles, with a Discourse of the Millennium. To which is added, A Chronology of the New Testament. A Map, and Alphabetical Table of all the Places mentioned in the Gospels, Acts, or the Epistles. With tables to each, of the matters contained, and of the words and phrases explained throughout the whole work.
London, Printed by W. Bowyer, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1706.
The bindery was established on St. Martin's Street in London by the German immigrant Charles Hering Sr. in 1794, soon acquiring a reputation among the leading bibliophiles of the period as the artistic successor to Roger Payne.
Following Hering Sr.'s death in 1812 the bindery moved to 9 Newman Street where it continued in operation until 1845. The firm's reputation for fine craftsmanship was sufficient to carry it over the loss of its founder,growing in time to account the Prince Regent amongst its patrons. (See Judith Goldstein Marks, 'Bookbinding Practices of the Hering Family, 1794-1844', The British Library Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 1980).
Second edition; 2 vols; folio (32 x 21 cm); engraved folding map to rear of vol. II, bookplate to front free endpaper verso of both vols, binder's ink stamp to verso of front marbled free endpapers, slightly toned with occasional moderate spotting; finely bound in the first-half of the 19th-century in dark blue morocco by Hering of 9 Newman St., London, covers tooled in gilt with an all-over design of acorns and fleurons around a central lozenge enclosing the arms of Rufford Abbey, gilt lattice spines, all edges gilt, minor wear to extremities and joints; [16], xlviii, 720, [12]; [8], xl, 742, [50]pp.
ESTC T94419.
Stock code 121704
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A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament.
ARISTEAS of Marmora; DONE, John (translator).
[Letter of Aristeas].
[1633].
The scarce first edition in English of the Letter of Aristeas, the earliest account of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which contains the first mention of the library of Alexandria
$1,710.00
[GENEVA VERSION]; STERNHOLD & HOPKINS (Psalmes).
The Bible.
1589.
A handsome sixteeth-century edition of the Geneva Bible, finely bound in eighteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, without the Concordance, but with the Booke of Common Prayer and metrical Psalmes
$10,944.00
KEMPIS, Thomas à.
[Imitatio Christi].
1677.
A near fine example of an English semi-sombre binding enclosing Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation, De Imitatione Christi in English translation
$3,078.00
