[King James Version].
The Holy Bible containing the Old and the New Testaments: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command.
Cambridge, Printed by J. Smith, Printer to the University, 1815.
'William Ged (1690-1749), the inventor of stereotyping, obtained in 1731 a contract for printing Prayer Books and Bibles for Cambridge University. But he completed only two Prayer Books, and surrendered his lease in 1738. Thwarted at every turn by trade jealousy, he failed in all his attempts to establish a business. "Subsequently Andrew Wilson, the Earl of Stanhope's practical man, starting where Ged left off, worked out the plaster-of-Paris plan that preceded the papier-mâché system, which has established stereotyping in its present position"' (Herbert).
Stereotype edition; large 8vo (23 x 15 cm); foxing to title, moderate spotting throughout, ownership inscription in pen to title, MS notes in pen to free endpapers, related family history notes loose to rear, later endappers, gutter-margins reinforced; contemporary straight-grained end morocco, covers ruled in gilt and blind, rebacked, original gilt spine in 6-compartments laid down, gauffered edges, slightly rubbed with loss to corners and edges.
Stock code 123842
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The Holy Bible
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
£1,250.00
[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
£8,000.00
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
£2,250.00
