[KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE].
The Holy Bible
The Holy Bible
containing the bookes of the Olde & New Testament.
Stock Code 121982
Cambridge, Printed by John Hayes. Printer to the Universitie, 1674.
architectural binding
A handsome, seventeenth-century folio King James Bible bound at the turn of the nineteenth-century in the nascent 'architectural' style after King's College Chapel, Cambridge.Folio (42 x 27.5 cm); engraved title trimmed and laid onto paper, woodcut initials, bound without half-title, slightly toned with occasional light spotting; early nineteenth-century blue straight-grained morocco architectural binding, covers stamped in gilt with a view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge within gilt-roll borders, gilt spine in 5 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed with some slight discolouration, very good.
ESTC R38709; Herbert 717.
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