[KING JAMES VERSION].

The Holy Bible

Name: The Holy Bible
Brand: [KING JAMES VERSION].
SKU: 123736
Price: 800.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

[bound with] The Book of Common Prayer [and] The Whole Book of Psalms.

Stock Code 123736

Oxford [and] London, Printed by the University-Printers; at the Theater in Oxford, and are to be sold by Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil. London; [and] by J. Richardson for the Company of Stationers, 1696; 1691; 1699.

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A very pleasing example of a late seventeenth-century pocket King James Bible, bound in contemporary black morocco gilt for the owner John Barfoot with his initials 'I B' (aka 'J B') stamped in the centre of the covers, with The Book of Common Prayer and Psalms.

Without the Apocrypha as issued.

Three works in 1 vol.; 12mo (14.5 x 8 cm); without the appocrypha as issued, ownership inscriptions in pen to front endpapers; contemporary black morocco, covers panelled in gilt containing the initials 'I B', gilt spine in 5 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed with small chip to head of spine, very good.

ESTC R25628; Herbert 842; DM 663.

Provenance

Provenance: 'John Barfoot His Book Anno Domini 1725'; 'Jn Barfoot his hand and Book 1736' (inscriptions and initials).

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