[King James Version].
The Holy Bible.
The Holy Bible.
[Authorised].
Stock Code 123023
Oxford, Printed at the Theater [and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard, Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, William Leake at the Crown between the two Temple-gates in Fleet-street, Thomas Guy at the corner of Little Lumbard-street, London] 1680.
pulpit folio
An impressive pulpit folio edition of the King James Bible, with the Apocrypha, illustrated with engraved general and New Testament title-pages and bound in contemporary panelled calf.The New Testament title is signed [Michael] Burghers (d.1727), a Dutch engraver active in England during the last quarter of the seventeenth-century. Burghers assisted David Loggan as engraver (or 'public sculptor') to the University of Oxford from 1673, and succeeded him in that post in 1692.
Pulpit folio (46 x 30 cm); engraved general and New Testament title-pages, ownership inscription in pen to general, old tape repair to NT title verso causing some spotting, a little toned, gutter margins reinforced at endpapers; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, remnants of the original spine laid down, all edges gilt, slightly rubbed with minor loss, very good.
ESTC R36651.
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