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BIBLE, in English. London: Robert Barker 1615. [ Bound with :] The Booke of Psalmes . London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1617. 2 works in one vol., 4° (216 x 156mm). Leaf before title bears the signature A within an ornament. General title and sectional title to New Testament with woodcuts, 4 woodcut maps and 26 illustrations, woodcut decorations. (Lacking the Apocrypha with the Old Testament ending on Qq7 with verso blank, clean tear to [A]3, but old paper repairs to verso affecting woodcut borders, occasional very light browning, spotting and staining.) Contemporary sheep, covers with narrow gilt borders, flat spine ruled in gilt, gilt edges (only one metal clasp remaining, extremities rubbed, spine faded with a few tiny wormholes). Provenance : Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (1594-1651) (contemporary inscription detailing family history down to 1695, and thence by descent to:) -- Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey (bookplate). cf. Darlow & Moule 146; cf. Herbert 342.
BIBLE, in English. London: Robert Barker 1615. [ Bound with :] The Booke of Psalmes . London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1617. 2 works in one vol., 4° (216 x 156mm). Leaf before title bears the signature A within an ornament. General title and sectional title to New Testament with woodcuts, 4 woodcut maps and 26 illustrations, woodcut decorations. (Lacking the Apocrypha with the Old Testament ending on Qq7 with verso blank, clean tear to [A]3, but old paper repairs to verso affecting woodcut borders, occasional very light browning, spotting and staining.) Contemporary sheep, covers with narrow gilt borders, flat spine ruled in gilt, gilt edges (only one metal clasp remaining, extremities rubbed, spine faded with a few tiny wormholes). Provenance : Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (1594-1651) (contemporary inscription detailing family history down to 1695, and thence by descent to:) -- Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey (bookplate). cf. Darlow & Moule 146; cf. Herbert 342.