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162927807London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1629. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary olive morocco 2 gilt outer panels with gilt-stamped lozenge on upper and lower cover ties lost black leather title lanbel a.e.g. Signed on back free-endppaer "Mary Crosse/Mary Crosse/ Her Booke/1678. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for the London Company of Stationers the organization that policed the London print trade. This book bears a near-contemporary ownership inscription by a woman implying that this copy at least was owned personally and used outside of church. Printed for the Company of Stationers unknown
16017682Londini London: Impensis G.Bishop. 1601. Folio pp. xlii 378 381-914 10. 20th-century half sheep pebbled cloth boards spine divided by raised bands black morocco label. Title-page trimmed and mounted final leaf also mounted a few smaller repairs to early leaves small wormhole in blank margin some foxing and occasional light marginal dampstaining. Spine rather rubbed and darkened and sometime furbished worn at ends and joints just starting to crack at head. The second edition of Fulke’s tendentious and influential comparison of the Douay-Rheims and Bishops’ translations of the New Testament with his notes and commentary intended to refute the arguments on which the former version was based. Fulke’s work with the two texts in parallel columns the Catholic in roman type and the Church of England version in italic sold better in England than the Douai Bible ever had bringing its language to a wider readership and becoming indirectly responsible for its influence on the coming King James version. ESTC S107069. Impensis G.B[ishop]. hardcover
1648304145np 1648. Sole edition. 4 ll. Collation: A4. 4to. Green half morocco by Riviere spine gilt some spotting. Sole edition. 4 ll. Collation: A4. 4to. "And would you know what here is meant / By Monster 'Tis our Parliament."<br /> ESTC lists seven other copies of this scathing anti-Cromwellian work though no other parts are traced. Wing S 2321; ESTC R204781. Provenance: Samuel Christie-Miller 1873 purchase note on flyleaf with cost of binding; Britwell Court Sotheby's 4 April 1924 lot 814; Fairfax of Cameron bookplate; Robert S. Pirie bookplate unknown
16609736London: Printed by J. Cottrell for William Roybould at the Unicorn and Henry Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1660. First edition. 8vo 7 459 I.e. 359pp. Engraved portrait frontis title page in two colors. Bound in half morocco spine lettered in gilt with gilt ruling marbled endpapers t.e.g. Lacks half title. Paper flaw to h4 affecting several words from the ends of about 4 lines on both upper and lower corners but not the sense. Otherwise text clean and complete binding tight and attractive. <br /> <br /> First edition of this important early biography of Cromwell offering a relatively sympathetic account of his military and civil career issued in the year of the Stuart Restoration. This work has been attributed to Henry Fletcher and William Raybould the publishers. There was a second edition in 1680 but the first remains quite scarce in the trade. <br /> <br /> ESTC R18473. Printed by J. Cottrell for William Roybould at the Unicorn, and Henry Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in St. Paul's Church-Yard unknown
1682V75726London: William Brooks 1682. Hardcover. Good. This is A translation of: De adh rendo Deo . 12mo tan leather with paper labels in ink to spine edges rubbed/corners worn/hinges cracking but well attached/5mm leather loss to head of spine 10 240pp Lacks most of the blank which preceeds the titlepage cf Oxford University "first leaf is blank" Title is repaired by mounting the page on newer paper without loss of print or papere .There is quite some foxing/browning to the pages and a few corner creases but the paper is entirely strong and supple. L5-8 are cropped to the bottom margin but affecting only part of the catch-words. An early book on Virtues laid out in short chapters on Patience Chastity Justice Compassion Hope Liberty Simplicity etc.to include extracts from the Bible for examples of each to bring the reader to God. A scarce item in the trade.Monastic bookplate of Monestarii St. Augustini apud Ramsgate. Only 6 printed copies listed in COPAC with The British Library only having a microform of this. WING A 875H William Brooks hardcover
1641AQ25531Imprinted at London by Robert Barker.and by the Assignes of John Bill 1641. 528pp. Title within ornamental woodcut border. ESTC R107604 Herbert 560 Wing B2645. ESTC records copies at just three locations British and Foreign Bible Society BL and NLS. Bound with: The whole booke of psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternehold J. Hopkins W. Whittingham and others: conferred with the Hebrew. Edinburgh. Printed by Evan Tyler 1644. 22 230pp 16. ESTC R231218 Wing B2403A. ESTC records copies at just four locations BL Manchester NLS and Oxford. 24mo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled black morocco A.E.G. with some gauffering. Rubbed to extremities bumping to corners loss/tearing to endbands Internally clean and crisp. A rare diminutive vicesimo-quarto London-printed Testament bound with a near contemporary Edinburgh- printed edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter. The binding style would be somewhat unusual for London; the rolls rules and flourishes are more indicative of seventeenth-century Scottish work. . unknown
1682138282London: Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet and Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1682. Third edition in English of Higo Grotius' foundational work on international law. Folio bound in full contemporary paneled calf with a burgundy morooco spine label lettered in gilt title page printed in red and black added engraved title by T. Cross Senior bound opposite the printed title page. Translated into English by William Evats. In good condition. Armorial bookplate and period ownership signature. A pre-eminent contributor to international legal doctrine Hugo Grotius was an influential Dutch jurist philosopher and theologian. In this momentous work Grotius describes situations in which war is a valid tool of law enforcement and outlines principles for the use of force. Though based on Christian natural law Grotius advances the novel argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine basis. In this regard he points to the future by moving international law in a secular direction. Barksdale's translation the first in English includes an original biographical sketch of Grotius. This edition "is perceived to be part of a larger movement in England aimed partly at setting out an ideological alternative to reformation proposals under discussion and to clarifying the relations between civil and ecclesiastical authority in England" Butler xii. Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet, and Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Excha unknown
1645AQ22725London: Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock 1645. 2 6pp. Modern navy morocco lettered in gilt to spine T.E.G. Marbled endpapers early alternate manuscript pagination to upper corners. With a loosely inserted letterpress receipt from bookseller Frank Hammond addressed to Lord Cottesloe acknowledging payment of £12 for the book in 1961. The sole edition of a decidedly uncommon news-book account of the actions of the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant - led by veteran Scottish Army officer Alexander Leslie 1st Earl of Leven c.1580-1661 - in the summer of 1645 reporting most particularly on their taking of a royalist garrison within the moated house at Cannon Froome Herefordshire. Following the defeat of a Royalist rebellion against the Covenanting-led Scottish Government in the Spring of 1645 the Scottish army of the Solemn League and Covenant - named after the 1643 treaty between the reforming parliaments in England and Scotland- led by the Earl of Leven marched south to assist their allies. As this news-book reports a 'party of 4500 Horse Foot and Dragoons' en route to Hereford became aware of a Royalist garrison led by 'Governor Colonell Barnold' in the small Herefordshire village of Castle Froome. After the Royalist commander refused to surrender the moated house which had been reinforced with Irish volunteers after the battle of Newark Leven the 'Lieut. Generall.gave order for storming the place'. The heat of the battle is described thus from a purely Roundhead perspective: 'The Grasses were about nine foot deep and as broad and in most places full of water; The Works above the Grasses were so high that all the Ladders we could get were too short; the Enemy behaved themselves valourously but it pleased the Lord to give our Souldiers to much courage that after a hot dispute they were beate from their works after which they fled to the house where they fought desparately till a great part of them were killed. We lost about 16. and 24. are wounded; of the Enemy were killed about 70. Colonell Barnold deadly wounded Captain Briskoe Capt. Houke & thirty others taken Prisoners.' ESTC records copies at just seven locations in the British Isles Advocates Library BL Hereford Cathedral Newcastle NLS Oxford Trinity College Dublin and just three further elsewhere California State Harvard Texas and Yale. Provenance: Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters'. ESTC R200176 Thomason E.294 Wing L557. First edition. Quarto. Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock unknown
1655354139London: E.T. For a Society of Stationers 1655. WITH A CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE BY LEWIS of flowers centering on a quotation within a wreath "Blessed is he that word faded" and signed Lewis fecit 1656.". 12mo 169 x 115 mm. Contemporary black goatskin elaborately tooled in gilt small central oval onalys of calf at center of a large rectangular onlaid panel spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands red morocco lettering piece in one. Laid into full green pebbled morocco drop box. WITH A CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE BY LEWIS of flowers centering on a quotation within a wreath "Blessed is he that word faded" and signed Lewis fecit 1656.". 12mo 169 x 115 mm. With a most unusual contemporary watercolor painting on the fore edge of the book displaying a design of flower and acorns surrounding a central green wreath which encloses the following inscription: "March 13 1665 Martha White Order my Aedes in thy Word ps: 119 " According to Webber in 1001 Fore-edge Paintings p. 12 the earliest date on a fore-edge painting by Lewis is a 1651 Bible now in NYPL dated 1653 on fore-edge and similarily depicts flower animals and a motto. VERY EARLY AND RARE<br /> <br /> Signed by the London firm of Stephen and Thomas Lewis the earliest known bindery to paint both the firm's name and a year directly on the fore-edge paintings. Their fore-edges were typical of the time featuring elements from nature such as flowers animals or birds and they incorporated ofdten a wreath as here with a quote from Scriptures. This copy is additionally enhanced by its contemporary ownership by a woman reader. Provenance: contemporary ownership inscriptions of Martha Reyner "Martha Reyner her Booke with the price 0-18" front flyleaf and "Martha Thompson Her Book Ano Domini 1705 et Praetorum huius drawing of a bird." In a fleece-lined green morocco folding case. Rebacked with original spine laid down top headband partly frayed one nick to leather on front cover some slight fading of gilt E.T. For a Society of Stationers unknown
1638371824Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1638. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. Contemporary black morocco gilt covers panelled with roll tool borders and central arabesque design in gilt flat spine gilt with marching morocco labels gilt edges minor wear at joints lower corners bumped. Provenance:Webb early inscription on the front pastedown; Maggs Brothers item 827 in unidentified mid-20th century catalogue clipping laid in; General Theological Seminary bookplate. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. This edition contains the first major revisions of the King James version standardising the use of italics and altering several readings. "This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762" Herbert.<br /> <br /> A lovely example bound in contemporary English black morocco and measuring 430x280mm is considerably larger than the dimensions cited by Darlow & Moole 402 375x234 mm and Darlow & Moole 403 for a "large thick paper" copy 397x270 mm. Bible: Herbert 520; Darlow & Moule 402 and 403; ESTC S123371; STC 2nd ed 2331. Common Prayer: Griffiths 1638:2; STC 2nd ed. 16410; ESTC S902. Psalms: STC 2nd ed. 2682; ESTC S122380 Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel unknown
1657AQ33174Cambridge: Printed by John Field 1657. 1354pp. Title printed within an ornamental border containing the seal of Cambridge University signed: Rob. Vaughan sculp. The New Testament and the Psalms both have separate title pages dated 1657 the register is continuous. Handsomely bound by Gilmour of Salisbury in early nineteenth-century black panelled morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed some surface loss to upper board. Armorial bookplate of J. L. Jackson with later pencilled inscription 'to Mr. Calcraft. John 1.29. I Thess. v. 23 ' to FEP head of text-block trimmed with occasional loss to running- title small hole to leaf Cc1 with slight loss of text and sense very occasional chipping to margins. A choice example of a Commonwealth era Cambridge-printed King James Bible notorious for its errors from the press of John Field in a finely executed later provincial binding - to a very distinct style - by the Gilmour family Andrew then George of binders and stationers of Salisbury fl.1800 onwards. As was noted by the contemporary pamphleteer William Kilburne in his Dangerous errors in several late printed Bibles London 1659 part of a series railing against the poor-quality Bible printing work of Henry Hills and John Field this edition omits Psalms Ch.143 v.4 in its entirety 'and there are many other faults as I am well informed of very great notoriety'. Provenance: With the bookplate of James Leonard Jackson 1777-1854 rector at St. Mary's Church Swanage; presented by him to a male member of the Calcraft family of Wareham most likely John Hales Calcraft 1796-1880 Member of Parliament for Wareham. ESTC R38638 Herbert 656 Wing B2252. 8vo. Printed by John Field unknown
16486308London Printed by the Company of Stationers 1648. 1648 8vo. 864 p. Collates A-Zz8 lacking the blank Zz8. 17cm. Recent blind panelled calf binding. Spine with raised bands. Old endpaper preserved with an ownership inscription dated 1746. One or two catchwords trimmed by an earlier binder when the edges were gilded for a previous binding. Architectural woodcut title pages to both Testaments. Printed in Roman type in two columns with sidenotes. The first few leaves strengthened with tissue on the fore edge. A well preserved copy of a Civil War period Bible. Herbert 608. London, Printed by the Company of Stationers, hardcover
1638020449London: Robert Barker 1638. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. Old and New Testament bound together without the Apocrypha in early 19th century gold- and blind-stamped straight-grained full brown morocco. The binding is signed stamped "Bound by Hering 9 Newman St" which could be any of the several members of the Hering family of London. All page edges are coated in thick gilt a.e.g. Bound in after the preface are eighteen leaves of the Genealogies of Holy scripture and a sheet containing a map of Canaan with a table on the reverse by J.S. John Speed. These 38 pages are hand-numbered in red ink with some underlining and notations and one leaf had a torn corner with loss repaired in blank. M6 with repair to margin and Aa5 with repair to margin on lower corner. Title page with small tear to the lower gutter. Minor foxing scattered lightly throughout text minor soiling to some page edges and some small spots of staining to the page edges. Printed in two columns. Octavo 8vo with height measuring 6 13/16" or 172mm. Unpaginated; A-I8 K-T8 V8 X-Z8 Aa-Ii8 Kk-Mm8 Nn7 Yy4-8 Zz8 Aaa-Iii8 Kkk-8. Previous owner's writing dated 1685 "washed" off of the top of M5 and the verso of the New Testament title page. An attractive and well-preserved copy bound at a time when the Apocrypha inclusion debate and controversy was debated with great enthusiasm in Great Britain. Robert Barker Hardcover
1613D15149London: Robert Barker 1613. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Good. 4to 8 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.; 216 x 156 mm. Black letter text in double columns 71 lines to the full column New Testament title in heart-shaped center within woodcut border woodcut initials head-and tailpieces. The First Quarto Edition of the King James Bible in black letter with "he" in Ruth 3:15. "This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which had proved so popular." Herbert As they are often found our copy is imperfect bound with additional bits and pieces also imperfect Our copy is lacking preliminary quire A including general title scattered browning and staining throughout two tears just touching text two holes costing a few words. Bound before the Bible: An imperfect and defective copy of the Book of Common Prayer lacks all before quire B; and Speed's Genealogies stained throughout without the map of Canaan. Bound after the Bible: the 1615 edition of Herrey's Concordances last two leaves defective; and Sternhold & Hopkins' metrical psalms lacks title-page quite stained and frayed toward the end. Bound in Eighteenth-century tree calf; worn joints cracked but generally sound. Label to spine states it incorrectly as Geneva Bible. Our copy has an interesting line of provenance as follows: William Albin several signatures dated 1727 1729 and 1732 Theophilus Jones gift inscription to Thomas G. Evans dated 1867 Birth records of the Welsh family Evans 18471874 in one hand on flyleaf Christmas Evans inscription dated 1935; Evans's probable namesake and ancestor was the famous Welsh Noncomformist minister Christmas Evans 17661838 $5500 <br/><br/> Robert Barker unknown
16954528London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1695. First Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 2 19-176. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-brown suede over terracotta cloth boards gilt lettering to the spine red speckeld foredges new endpapers. Light rubbing to the suede leather hint of sunning to the front board else extremities remain in near fine condition. Contents remarkably well-preserved indicating only a touch of slight foxing chiefly confined to the preliminary pages otherwise without blemish markings or notations. Overall very good. The British Library in their catalogued entry notes the presence of two variants of the imprint 'The first line of the imprint has "And Sold". Another edition has "And to be Sold" '; our copy reads the latter. See ESTC Citation Nos. R224964 006131506 & R14958 006080775. See also Wing Citation No. D506. Scarce in commerce. <br/><br/>A remarkable and crucial historical account of the raging debates within the English parliament surrounding the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 also known as the Bloodless Revolution An Réabhlóid Ghlórmhar Irish: Rèabhlaid Ghlòrmhor Scottish Gaelic; Chwyldro Gogoneddus Welsh; Glorieuze Overtocht Dutch which witnessed the deposition of James II also James VII of Scotland from the English Throne in favour of his daughter Mary II and her husband "stadtholder and de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic" William III of Orange. The Revolution would see the passage of the landmark Bill of Rights of 1689 ensured the exclusion of Catholics from the English throne severely curtailed the monarch's power and witnessed the effective establishment of a constitutional monarchy thereby ensuring the supremacy of Parliament. It further led to the Act of Toleration of 1689 granting toleration to "Nonconformist Protestants" but excluding Catholics whose emancipation would be delayed for a further 140 years. The present volume deals chiefly with Parliament's resolution relating to whether James had forfeited or abdicated the throne by virtue of his having discarded the "Great Seal of the Realm" into the River Thames prior to fleeing for France his subsequent capture at Kent and later exile under the protection of Louis XIV of France. Ultimately Parliament declared that: "King James II having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom has abdicated the government and that the throne is thereby vacant." Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster hardcover
16972539London: Abel Roper and Roger Clavel 1697. First Thus . Hardcover. Good. First Thus an awkward verse translation; 12mo rebacked with new spine new endpapers and original boards; good original leather boards scratched rubbed and worn; boards heavily worn on all edges often to board; corners bumped and worn; bottom corners to worn corners now rounded; bottom corner of frontispiece chipped off does not affect illustration; pages foxed and toned; ink notation to margins of several pages throughout possibly printed but appears to be drawn; pencil writing to margins of several pages throughout; top corners of pp41-43 creased; hole and brown stain to middle of p79-80 affects two words of text destroying one; large stain to side edge of pp89-94; 328pp. <br/> <br/> Abel Roper and Roger Clavel hardcover
166954822London: Printed by His Majesties Printers 1669. Hardcover. Good. Two works the first in two parts small folio 30 by 18.5 cm. 273; 75 ff. Engraved collective title separate letterpress title for the Psalms half-title for The Form and Manner of Making. Bishops etc. calendar printed in red and black printed marginalia; full title for the metrical Psalms musical scores. Texts in black letter Gothic. Contemporary reversed calf suede expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip with new gilt morocco lettering piece. Marginal dampstain and erosion at 20 leaves with slight loss at fore-margin calendar leaf C4 recto; mild dampstain at top gutter in later leaves; library stamp at bottom margin leaves N2/N3 in the metrical Psalms. Good or better complete copies of both works.<br /> <br /> Early edition of what still remains the authoritative version of the Book of Common Prayer comprising the official liturgy of the Anglican Communion and other historically related Christian churches. The first prayer book published in the wake of the English Reformation appeared in 1549 during the reign of Edward VI. That work was revised in 1604 during the reign of James I and again in 1662 during the reign of Charles II. While revision and supplementation has continued into the present era the 1662 edition of which the present copy is essentially an early reprint remains authoritative as the official prayer book of the Church of England.<br /> <br /> Despite the discrepancy in dates which appear on the title pages of the present edition the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms of David comprise a single publication as noted at the collective title and confirmed by the signatures. The metrical Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins often bound with the Book of Common Prayer is a separate work. <br /> <br /> Provenance: Bookplate of the Royal Institution of South Wales noting the gift of Col. W.L.C. Morgan RE Bryn Briallu November 1898. Early owner's entry of "Alice: Jervoise" at top of contents leaf A2.<br /> <br /> Signatures: pi1 A-B6 C4 D6 E8 F-Z6 Aa-Xx6 Yy8 = 273 leaves / A-M6 N3 = 75 leaves. References: ESTC R36533; R172902.<br /> <br /> Full titles and imprints: 1 part 1 The Book of Common-Prayer And Administration Of the Sacraments And Other Rites & Ceremonies Of the Church According to the Use Of the Church of England Together with the Psalter or Pslams of David Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form & Manner of Making Ordaining & Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons. London: Printed by His Majesties Printers Cum Privilegio. MDCLXIX 1 part 2 - The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Translation of the Great Bible Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Chruches. London Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Anno Dom. 1676. 2 - The whole Book of Psalms. Collected into English Meeter By Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others: Conferred with the Hebrew with apt Notes to Sing them withall. London Printed by William Godbid and Andrew Clark for the Company of Stationers 1677. Printed by His Ma[jes]ties Printers hardcover
1604372251London: Robert Barker 1604. Text in Roman type in two columns. Titles within woodcut borders woodcut illustrations head and tail-pieces. 4 190; 117 i.e. 127; 128-187 i.e 197 omitting 129 as issued and other errors in pagination; 121 11 leaves. Complete with the leaf signed Ai preceding the general title. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Booke of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid. Title in red and black within woodcut border. 46 leaves complete. ESTC S93831. Bound with following the Bible: The Whole Booke of Psalmes. 10 70pp only. Lacking terminal three signatures. 4to. Early mottled calf rebacked brass corner pieces and hinges lacks clasps upper cover detached marbled endpapers gilt edges. Provenance: William James signature and inscription dated 1663 on leaf preceding the general title; Frances Garway inscription on brass plate on covers dated 1701; Thomas Bever armorial bookplate inscriptions on endpaper circa 1748; Francis Hutchinson Synge; Arthur John Snow Paget inscription dated 1851 General Theological Seminary bookplate. Text in Roman type in two columns. Titles within woodcut borders woodcut illustrations head and tail-pieces. 4 190; 117 i.e. 127; 128-187 i.e 197 omitting 129 as issued and other errors in pagination; 121 11 leaves. Complete with the leaf signed Ai preceding the general title. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Booke of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid. Title in red and black within woodcut border. 46 leaves complete. ESTC S93831. Bound with following the Bible: The Whole Booke of Psalmes. 10 70pp only. Lacking terminal three signatures. 4to. An excellent example of the Geneva Bible with Tomson's revised New Testament and Junius' Revelation. The principal Bible of 16th-century Protestantism and the Geneva Bible was used by Shakespeare Oliver Cromwell John Knox John Donne and John Bunyan. This edition contains the famous reading "breeches" in Genesis Chapter III verse 7 which first appeared in 1579. Although Barker's imprint on title of this edition reads "Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie" the colophon reads "Printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie" as James I had ascended in March 1603. Darlow & Moole 209; ESTC S159; Herbert 274; STC 2190 Robert Barker unknown
16118272Imprinted at London by Robert Barker printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie 1611. 1611. 1611 4to. 2 226 231-434 434 misnumbered 435 4 441-554 82 leaves. Herbert 308. BOUND AFTER a defective Book of Common Prayer BOUND BEFORE STERNHOLD Thomas and HOPKINS John The whole booke of Pdalmes Printed by A.G. for the Company of Stationers 1635. 10 90 6 p. Lacking the final 6 pages. Contemporary blind panelled binding with brass corner fittings central lozenges and replacement clasps. Rebacked with most of the original spine re-laid. Trimmed close at the head occasionally cutting into headlines or foliatiion. Leaf Dd3 has small loss of text at the foot. Ee4 has slight loss to a sidenote and Ee5 has a little loss to the blank fore edge margin. The New Testament has a separate title page and is followed by Hervey's Concordances. Nnn2 has loss at the foot. A few light stains some turned corners and a few pen trials. A handsome Jacobean Bible. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1611. unknown
1603D15151London: Robert Barker 1603. Full Leather. Good. 4to 8 3/8 x 6 in.; 213 x 152 mm. Black letter text in double columns 71 lines to the full column general title and New Testament title within the same woodcut border woodcut initials and tailpieces; title-page cut round and remargined headlines cropped chiefly at the beginning some side-notes shaved first two quires guarded moderate browning occasional staining and soiling several marginal repairs a few affecting or costing some text bottom of Iii2 remargined with last 2 lines of text in pen facsimile and tailpiece cut round and mounted lower right corner of NT title-page renewed in facsimile upper corner of Sss2 supplied in manuscript. Bound with: Robert. F. Herrey. Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances . London: Robert Barker 1603. 4to. Black letter double and triple columns 2 woodcut tailpieces; lower right corner of title-page renewed headlines cropped small tear to top margin of K8 touching text. Nineteenth-century diced Russia; worn rebacked and rehinged upper inner hinge peeling but holding fine. Walter Cullenson signature on Iii2v Warner-Yates-Cullenson families birth records dated 1679-1709 on verso of NT title-page and repeated on verso of Concordances title-page Bible: STC 2189; ESTC S101940; Herbert 273. Concordances: STC 13228b.18 incorrect collation of all signatures in 8s; ESTC S92949 with correct collation of AK8 L2. <br/><br/> Robert Barker hardcover
1660T24<p><em>The Holy Bible containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament…</em></p><p><strong>Summary:</strong> Pulpit Folio in 2 Vols. 19" x 13". A pulpit folio Field's Bible commemorating the restoration of Charles II. Bound in contemporary morocco with six double plate engravings including Adam and Eve in the Garden and Solomon's Temple.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> 2 works in 2 vols. Begins with <em>The Book of Common Prayer </em>with printed title page 1660 preceded by a full-page engraving of the Royal Arms by Hollar. The entire work is elaborately ruled in red and features wide margins. Engraved title page by Diepenbeeck and Lambart featuring King Solomon on the throne with David Moses and Aaron above. Double page plate of Adam and Eve in the Garden featuring a variety of animals including a unicorn. The second double page plate with vestments and details of the tabernacle. Other plates include a map various views of Solomon's temple and a very large fold-out of Jerusalem.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> a2 A-Z2 Aa-Ll2 BCP par4 parpar4 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Kkk6 Lll4 Genesis-Job; Mmm-Zzz6 Aaaa-Yyyy6 Zzzz8 a-y4 A-Z6 Aa-Dd6 Ee8 Psalms – Revelation.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Nineteenth century dark green paneled morocco. Covers with gilt stamp image featuring Kin's College Chapel in Cambridge around an elaborate gilt rolled border. Spine with six sets of double raised bands and elaborate tooling to compartments with the words "Holy Bible" and "Genesis – Job" or "Psalms – Revelation" lettered in gilt along with a date to foot. Red endpapers. All edges gilt with inner dentelles. </p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> The text is clean and bright appearing unread; Garden of Eden plate mounted to stub with repaired closed tear; Map of Jerusalem with a few short closed tears. Joints in volume 2 cracked but holding firm.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> A very good copy of the popular Restoration Bible celebrating the return of Charles II. The text was first published the previous year by John Field printer to the University of Cambridge who had been commissioned to supply a lectern bible for use in churches and libraries. Former university Vice-Chancellor John Worthington noted that "For a fair large letter large paper with fair margin … there was never such a Bible in being". This work is the first King James Bible provided with illustrations and beautiful double-plate engravings at that.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 668; ESTC R17044; Wing B2258.</p> John Field hardcover
16811278921681. ENGLISH LAW. Proceedings Upon Impeachments from the year 1666 to the year 1681. Manuscript. No place circa 1681. Quarto modern full brown calf raised bands red morocco spine label. $3200.Original manuscript from the late 17th century with the parliamentary impeachment proceedings against 14 individuals during the reign of Charles II.The accountswritten in legible script with an index at frontbegin with the proceedings against Viscount Mordaunt charged with raping the daughter of the surveyor of Windsor Castle when Mordaunt was the castle's constable. Although they include a number of cases including that of William Penn in 1668 the clear focus is on the Popish plot a supposed conspiracy promulgated in 1678 that led to the arrest and trial of five Catholic lordsBaron Arundell the Marquess of Powis Baron Belasyse Baron Petre and Viscount Staffordall of which are recounted in this manuscript. As anticatholic hysteria waned and it became increasingly clear that the ""plot"" was a fiction the fallout entrapped more of the players: the impeachment of William Scroggs who served as the Chief Justice during the trials is detailed as is that of the Lord High Treasurer the Earl of Danby who was charged with concealing the plot and Edward Fitzharris who had attempted to implicate Danby in Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's murder in 1678 an event which fanned the flames of anticatholic hysteria. Armorial bookplates; inkstamp of the Grotius Society.Spine toned; text clean. hardcover
167996969London: no publisher 1679. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 18pp. Tiny tears modest age-toning and small stains a very good copy. ESTC R1480. (no publisher) unknown
1686biblio50<p>Flatman Thomas. POEMS AND SONGS. BY THOMAS FLATMAN. THE THIRD EDITION WITH ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS. ME QUOQUE VATEM DICUNT PASTORES SED NON EGO CREDULUS ILLIS. VIRGIL. Octavo 7.1 x 4.6 inches. 1686 Third edition with sixteen new poems appearing for the first time. A8 a-b8 B-K8 L7 M8. Complete collating just as the Grolier copy with the signature L7. The engraved portrait frontispiece of Flatman which appears for the first time in this edition is present in this copy. It is bound in period calfskin with spine repair that is tastefully done. The first few gathers are loose from the book 9 full pages. Book collates and all pages present. Has the bookplate of Edward Parker of Brownsholme in the County of York along with signatures of other owners. The spine is very neatly and tastefully done and looks quite well on the shelf. The contents are occasionally lightly browned and spotted with no extraordinary defects. 44 libraries have copies.</p> Printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard hardcover
161117388London: Robert Barker 1611. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. The First and Second Books of Kings complete in 36 leaves. The first page is the final page of the previous book 2 Samuel; on the reverse begins 'The First Booke of the Kings commonly called The third Booke of the Kings'. 36pp. followed by 'The Second Booke of the Kings commonly called The fourth Booke of the Kings' 35pp. The final page ends II Kings and begins I Chronicles. Printed in black letter woodcut initials. Recent binding of quarter calf gilt titles Cockerell marbled paper boards. Some remargining no loss and old stains else a very good copy in a fine binding The binder's notes itemize the steps in rebinding including leaf disinfectant for the stains. Darlow & Moule 240. Robert Barker hardcover