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1809331647London: Robert Scholey 1809. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece & title page in first volume; text in double column. Tall 8vos full contemporary red straight-grained morocco; raised bands gilt spine all edges gilt with fore-edge paintings. London: Robert Scholey 1809. Bindings rubbed but still a near fine pair preserved in cloth slipcase.<br/> <br/> The fine fore-edge paintings depict four London scenes with surrounding borders: Whitehall Regent's Park Crescent Regent Street & Lincoln's Inn Fields<br/> <br/> Robert Scholey unknown
1620B4776London: Bonham Norton & John Bill c. 1620-1623. Endpapers renewed a close trimmed copy with a letter or number slightly clipped here and there from the cross-textual references in the margins. The Bible lacks leaf Iii2 Luke 2 & 3 there is a tear with no loss on leaf T2 and a tear with minor loss on Cc2 the final leaf of Psalms is missing some text at the top centre and a couple of the pages have been reinforced. However this thick copy of a rare and important edition is very clean and crisp. This is an early printing of the King James Bible which was first published in 1611. Binding: full contemporary calf sides with double fillet borders enclosing the inner panel with cornerpieces rebacked tastefully with raised bands and divided in six compartments gilt lettered on two. The old clasps gone with some damage to the front board small piece of leather missing from the front board. Title page borders as described by Darlowe & Moule for the 1599 Geneva Bible has letterpress in a heart-shaped frame with 24 small compartments showing the tents of the twelve tribes and the figures of the twelve Apostles. An inner part shows four Evangelists. Title-page laid down on acid-free tissue paper for long-term preservation. Size: Thick 8vo 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch References: Darlow & Moule 1968 #379. Pages: P. ff. A8A-Z8 Aa-Zz8 Aaa-Ggg8 Iii Iii3-8 Kkk-Sss8; A-K8 L2; A-G8 ff. Contents: Epistle Dedicatory A2-A8 Books listed on verso of last leaf; O.T. text A1-Eee2; signature D4 is printed C4 and heading on Ppp2v reads Coanthians; New Testament title page1622 same woodcut border laid down as above; N.T. text Eee4-Sss8 with colophon dated 1621 A1-L2; Concordances collected by R.F.H.; title dated 1622 but colophone dated 1621 A1-L2; Metrical Psalms 1623 with final imprint of Company of Stationers also dated 1623 A1-G8. Category: Book Religious Christianity Bonham Norton & John Bill hardcover
2169Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie 1611. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Unpaginated. 164pp. A8-K8 L2. Contemporary calf rebacked. With bosses. Clasps missing. ESTC S122433; STC 2nd. Ed 13232.5. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the ready finding out of any thing in the same conteined. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker 1611. Quarto. 602 ff. --4 A8-E8 F6 A8-Z8 Aa8-Zz8 Aaa8-Hhh8 Iii2 4 Kkk-Yyy8 Zzz10. Text ends on fo. 554 really 552; and tables on L2. Illustrated. Darlow & Moule 239 and The vvhole book of Psalmes: collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold Iohn Hopkins and others. London: printed by R. Feld for the Companie of Stationers 1612. Octavo. x 100 iipp. ESTC S124338; STC 2nd ed. 2542. Imperfect; lacks all after page 76. <br/> <br/> Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1611. hardcover
1789London: printed by R. Feld for the Companie of Stationers 1612. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. x 100 iipp. Contemporary calf rebacked. With bosses. Clasps missing. ESTC S124338; STC 2nd ed. 2542. Imperfect; lacks all after page 76. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the ready finding out of any thing in the same conteined. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker 1611. Quarto. 602 ff. --4 A8-E8 F6 A8-Z8 Aa8-Zz8 Aaa8-Hhh8 Iii2 4 Kkk-Yyy8 Zzz10. Text ends on fo. 554 really 552; and tables on L2. Illustrated. Darlow & Moule 239 Herrey Robert F. Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie 1611. Quarto. Unpaginated. 164pp. A8-K8 L2. ESTC S122433; STC 2nd. Ed 13232.5. <br/> <br/> London: printed [by R. Feld] for the Companie of Stationers, 1612. hardcover
16348259London Printed by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie and by the assignes of Iohn Bill 1634. 1634. 1634 4to. 16 904 p. Authorised Version. Black letter text printed in two columns with the side notes in Roman type. The general title has the fore edge trimmed rather irreguarly without affecting the printed area. There is loss to A1 Aaa8 and Ddd5 all repaired with blank paper at some time. BOUND AFTER a defective Book of Common Prayer whose colophon states Printed by Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill 1634 and SPEED John Genealogies in which D4 is defective and the Map of Canaan has a small amount of loss to the printed border at a lower corner. BOUND WITH STERNHOLD Thomas and HOPKINS John The Whole Booke of Psalmes Printed by A.G. for the Company of Stationers 1635 which lacks the final leaf. Bound in contemporary blind tooled calf expertly rebacked and the original spine relaid. The text shows the usual signs of handling over four centuries of regular use. A good solid copy. London, Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1634. unknown
123837London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament 1653. . 24mo 11.5 x 6 cm; engraved title-page ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpapers a little toned; contemporary calf covers tooled in blind with initials 'H L' lower original clasp with scallop-shell terminal present upper clasp missing gilt floral cornerpieces faded all edges gilt rubbed with slight loss very good.<br /> A well-preserved 'Pearl Bible' so-called for its small size which made ideal for carrying in one's pocket dating to the interregnum. A pleasant example in the original clasped calfskin binding.<br /><br />The engraved general title depicts Moses and David and the Evangelists and omits the usual words of the King James Version 'by His Majesty's special command'.<br /> ESTC R14315; Herbert 653; DM 496. London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament, 1653. unknown
1120VA4V0F9Leather Bound. Very Good. As pictured Leabhraichean an t-Seann Tiomnaidh agus an Tiomanaidh Nuaidh: air an tarruing o na ceud chanainibh chum Gaelic Albannaich 1885. Full leather Without Reader remainder or library Marks hardcover
15727549CB1572. Basel Peter Perna 1572. 8°. 4 Bl. 1020 recte 1008 S. Bogennorm: 4 a8z8 A8Z8 Aa8Rr8. Pergamentband der Zeit mit handschr. Rückentitel. VD16 ZV 228179. Lateinisch-französische Parallel-Ausgabe. Der lateinische Text bearbeitet von Lelio Sozzini und die französische Bearbeitung von Sébastien Châteillon. Mit verschiedenen handschriftlichen Besitzereinträgen auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz. Das Papier durchgehend leicht gebräunt. Der Pergamentbezug fleckig. unknown
1633156London: Robert Barker.by the Assignes of John Bill 1633. Very Early Jacobean Printing. Tooled leather. Very Good /Custom Case. 12mo original full leather 17th century tooled and inlaid binding engraved frontispiece closely cut borders all edges gilded green silk page divider decorative marbled endpapers viii blank ~ 524 vi blank pages.<br /> <br /> THE NEW TES_/ <br /> TAMENT /<br /> Of our Lord and /<br /> S A V I O V R /<br /> - Jesus Christ<br /> <br /> Newly translated out of the / <br /> Originall Grrek : and / <br /> with the former transla- /<br /> tions diligently compared /<br /> and revised by his Maie- /<br /> sties special commande- /<br /> ment.<br /> ----------------------------<br /> Imprinted at London / <br /> By Robert Barker Printer / <br /> to the Kings most Excel- /<br /> lent Majesty and by / <br /> the Assignes of John Bill <br /> 1633. <br /> Cum privilegia. A GEM! In an original tooled leather binding in remarkably well preserved condition . Beautiful clear and crisp type. Moderate and quite uniform age-toning to paper with the occasional smudge. Pages closely cropped by the printer so some chapter headings at the top have been partially excised though not the text. Endpapers renewed. Generally minimal wear.<br /> <br /> Finely bound in contemporary tan gilt-embossed calf over wooden boards richly gilt to spine and covers. four hubs and boards. Marbled pastedowns & endpapers renewed a.e.g. and gauffered. Spine very slightly rubbed with partial loss of caps at head and foot restored and slightly visible. Edges of engraved title page reinforced with Japan paper. Previous owner's ink inscriptions on two front free endpapers naming "Edmund James Gore" & his London addresses. <br /> <br /> Housed in a protective clam-shell box custom made for this Rare and Precious 1633 edition of the Authorized King James version of the New Testament. Overall a VG copy.<br /> <br /> The continental binding on this small format Authorized version MAY be a pirated edition of the English Bible from Amsterdam. For example the Stam printing family were printing small format Bibles in 1673-- after our publication see Cambridge History of the Book in Britain IV p.467. <br /> <br /> Herbert 713-14 Wing B2511A. Robert Barker...by the Assignes of John Bill hardcover
1820B4779London: Richards Wattess c. 1820-22. Very good condition. Binding: Contemporary diced calf tastefully rebacked to match. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt decorative devices. Gilt title on green calf label on 2. Text in Arabic. Size: Thick 8vo. 211x134mm. Provenance: Ex Libris Alfonso Bibliotheca Mt St Alphonsus Church and religious school NY Pages: P. Title Blank Contents 1-2 1-645 1-407 ; Title Blank Table of contents Blank 1-352. Category: Book Religious Christianity Richards Wattess hardcover
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
176332387Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Thick quarto. 4 992 277 3pp. Printed in two columns. Expert restoration repairing tears with minor losses to OT 2 and A1 and NT A2 and Mm4. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards early marbled endpapers rebacked to style spine with raised bands in six compartments<br/> <br/> The second Saur bible: the second edition of the first bible in a European language to be published in America.<br/> <br/> Sauer's text of the Luther translation was largely based on the Halle Bible but with the addition of the appendix to the Apocrypha with books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg version. When first published in 1743 Saur's bible was the first bible in a European language to be published in America and just the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder.<br/> <br/> Arndt The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 269; Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 9343; Hildeburn 1877; O'Callaghan p. 25; Sabin 5192; Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 28-50. Christoph Saur unknown
006911Chefoo China: Women's Bible School American Presbyterian Mission Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Oblong Folio. No Date circa 1930. Near Fine pages with light toning. Oblong folio 10" x 13 3/4". Bound in beautiful red pictorial embossed silk over limp boards string-tied 28 pp of cut-out illustrations in black and white many with colorful silk inlays with tissue guards publisher's 1 page explanatory leaf laid in also an original 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" cut-out with colorful silk inlays and string hanger readt-to-hang laid in. Cut-out chapter headings are Travel and Transportation Customs and Habits Chinese Birth-Year Cycle latest date 1935 Occupations The Eight Immortals Myths and Legends Chinese Recipes Chinese Children Chinese Junks and The Magician. Well over 100 cut-outs in all including the bonus laid in cut-out and SCARCE THUS. Women's Bible School, American Presbyterian Mission Paperback
1949CNJL314Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1949. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Rogers Bruce. Two volumes the Bible one of 975 copies elephant folio size 942 pp. and Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies quarto size 41 pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers this time for an American publisher his first was the "Oxford Lectern Bible" published in 1935 using the King James Version. No other book designer / typographer from the history of printing can claim to have designed two complete folio Bibles each one highly regarded. Bruce Rogers 1870-1957 American typographer who invented the "Centaur" tyepface based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson is considered by many to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. He designed books for the Riverside Press Cambridge when he cut his first typeface "Montaigne" named for the first book it appeared in "The Essays of Montaigne" 1903; he designed "Centaur" while working as house designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1916 he worked for the Cambridge University Press and a few years later returned to the U.S. where he met William Edwin Rudge and was employed by him at his Mount Vernon Press. During this time he also designed books for Harvard University Press and served as typographic advisor to Lanston Monotype. In 1928 Rogers returned to England where he produced what many have called "the most important and notable typographic achievement of the twentieth century" being his Oxford Lectern Bible. The present work was done during his later years but is no less formidable in both size and scope and essential to any collection of his work.<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Original publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped illustration to upper board lettered in gilt to backstrip top-edge gilt quarto volume in matching red cloth with similar gilt motif to upper board and gilt lettering to backstrip with original glassine jacket and housed in a blue paper slipcase numerous flourishes and initials vintage bookseller ticket on rear pastedown; types used include Fred Goudy's Deepdene Italic Forum and Oldstyle type paper is 74 lb. 75 percent white linen rag paper from Barcham Green Mill in England elephant folio size 19.25" by 14"; "Making of the Bible" quarto size 11.5" by 8.5" pagination: Bible i-vi vii-xxii xxiii-xxiv 1-941 942 1 colophon; Making of the Bible 1-4 5-19 20-41 limited first editions of both volumes with the folio being one of 975 copies and the accompanying quarto being number 178 of 1875 copies.<br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: A very good copy of the folio with some professional restoration to the backstrip/joints some minor rubbing at edges the binding with only light dustiness gilt is bright with a few rubbed spots and the interior clean other than some minor soiling to the endpapers free of prior owner markings one very short closed tear to the upper margin of the dedication page to King James; quarto fine overall with some extremely light wear to the joints at the head and tail of the spine its glassine wrapper alas fair only as the spine has perished and we only have the panels/flaps its slipcase very good plus sturdy with some overall wear.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy book and therefore additional postage will apply as the standard shipping charge will not cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The World Publishing Company hardcover
1120VA7MPEKLeather Bound. Very Good. Leather 1837 Bible Bibelen eller den Heliger Skriftm : innehallande Gamla och Ivya Testamentets worn full leather as pictured Stockholm : Samuel Rumstedt 1837 hardcover
16353642A very scarce edition of the Louvain version of the Bible printed in Troyes by Nicolas Oudot the younger of the two founder brothers of the dynasty of printers in Troyes. It is a small format printing consequently a fairly chunky book which is illustrated throughout with charming woodcut illustrations. The BN has a later edition published by Nicolas Oudot Troyes 1678 which is also the Louvain version edited by François Véron and revised by Antoine Girodon Chambers 1453. While this copy has suffered rather rough and ready solutions to maintaining its integrity - no easy matter considering its considerable girth - it remains an appealing object if not one in original condition. Internally it is fairly clean and the woodcut illustrations are charming.<br /><br /><i>Small 8vo 115 x 90 mm pp. xii 971 37 numerous part-page woodcut illustrations throughout the text lightly browned throughout</i> <i>in contemporary vellum covered with later marbled paper and cloth backing: a workaday and rather ugly solution but sound with early manuscript notes on the front endpaper and the ownership inscription of John Wasley on the rear endpaper.</i> <br /> Chez Nicolas Oudot, demeurant en la ruë nostre Dame
168410436Amsterdam Widow of Steven Swart Jacobus vander Deuster and Aert Dircksz. Ossaen 1684. engraved titlepage 2 601 p. Contemporary Leather with 4 raised bands 12° Text block slightly browned throughout spine decorated with gilt ornaments and title: 'Testament in 3 talen'. Polyglot Bible containing the New Testament in French English and Dutch. Printed in three parallel columns are the French Geneva version the English King James version and the Dutch States Translation Statenvertaling version. Firm copy. Darlow T.H./Moule H.F. 1963. Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture 626/1450/3329/3768 Amsterdam, Widow of Steven Swart, Jacobus vander Deuster, and Aert Dircksz. Ossaen hardcover
1838ST16098aOxford: Printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co 1838. 137 x 79 mm. 5 1/2 x 3 1/4". 528 leaves. <br/> VERY PRETTY NAVY BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT covers with gilt-rule border intricate cornerpieces of small floral and botanical tools raised bands spine compartments very densely gilt with floral tools and stippling gilt titling turn-ins with gilt floral cornerpieces millefleurs silk fabric endleaves all edges gilt. Front flyleaf with ink ownership inscription of Anne Robinson dated 1839; front flyleaves with ink annotations and Bible verses in three different 19th century hands laid-in note giving the chain of ownership in Anne Robinson's family for the next century. ◆Half a dozen leaves with small light brown spot margins trimmed a bit close but no loss but A VERY FINE COPY clean and fresh internally IN A SPARKLING BINDING.<br/> <br/> This charmingly bound little volume was the perfect book of Scripture for a Victorian lady and was cherished by generations of her family. The very feminine floral binding suggests that it was bound as a gift for Anne Robinson who used it very gently for her personal devotions--and no doubt as an attractive accessory to her Sunday church ensemble. The annotation of favorite passages offers insight into the owner's spiritual life and the inlaid handwritten "chain of title" is testament to our volume's status as family heirloom. Robinson and her successors clearly treasured it as it is little changed from the day it left the bindery. The condition is notably splendid here. Printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co unknown
64914London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1802. 9 vols. 8vo. 23.5 x 15 cm. Contemporary half navy calf over complementary cloth with ticket of John Spreat Bookbinder & Stationer Exeter to front pastedown spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments. Some light rubbing to exteriors cloth a bit faded contents with some very light occasional spotting but generally clean and unmarked overall a very handsome set. Sometimes bound in ten volumes as described in Herbert with a separate volume of the Notes here the Prefaces and Notes are bound at the end of each volume. Vol. 1: Genesis - Numbers Vol. 2: Deuteronomy - 2 Samuel Vol. 3: 1 Kings - Esther Vol. 4: Job - Psalms Vol. 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah Vol. 6: Ezekiel - Malachi Vol. 7: The Apocrypha Vol. 8: Matthew - Acts Vol. 9: Romans- Revelation London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., 1802. hardcover
1795000571London: R. Bowyer 1795. Two volumes complete unpaginated collates A-9I2v as Herbert with Cartons of Raphael D'Urbin 7pp at the end of volume two. Full morocco raised bands spines in six panels title to second panel volume to third remaining panels with small quadrilobe device to centre place of publication and date to foot all in gilt covers with single fillet border and small fleuron corner pieces gilt roll to edges and inner edges all edges gilt and marbled marbled endpapers leather joints. Slightly rubbed to extremities couple of minor bumps and scrapes. Internally some light browning and off-setting repair to head of frontispiece but generally quite clean. Previous owners bookplate to ffep old booksellers description tipped in to front pastedown. Engraved titles and engraved plates by Fittler after Durer Rembrandt and Rubens amongst others. Binding is by Kalthoeber with his oxidised ticket to reverse of front marbled endpaper. Herbert 1394 with the misprint at Mark vii 27 'Let the children first be killed' instead of 'filled'. Bound in at the rear is the 7pp 'Cartons of Raphael D'Urbin' with the plate and additional engraved title Estc N61186 showing only five locations worldwide. First Thus. Full Morocco. Good. Illus. by Fittler James. 4to. R. Bowyer Hardcover
1638022099Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1638. . Your chance to own a complete Bible apart from one leaf printed only 27 years after the King James Version first came out - a huge one 15 inches tall similar to the pictures you may have seen of original 1611 editions. Hinges and extremities have wear and tear and clasps are missing. Early and late pages have furrows perhaps suggesting moisture issues long ago. A few small holes to pages appear to have been caused by rust and therefore presumably contamination of the paper by specks of ferrous metal. There are no extra materials apart from the translators' addresses to King James and to the reader at the front and the Apocrypha located between the Old and New Testaments. No endpapers - inside of front cover has old stamps of Thomas Garbutt Linen and Woollen Draper Barnard Castle likely from 100 or more years ago. The date of 1638 which is printed on the NT title page has also been added in an old but plain style in black pen at the bottom of the illustrated main title page which is a bit worn and grubby. Page 611-612 middle of Hosea is missing seeming at first glance not to have been present but in fact some tiny fragments do appear at the spine. The last page of text is dilapidated but the text of it seems near complete. Some old repairs have been made to borders of pages by pasting on paper which mostly seems of a similar nature to the original and in general when doing this care seems to have been taken not to obscure the text. The exterior is not elaborate but has a 3 inch long rhombus shaped area of gilt decoration to the middle of each of the two boards; there is no lettering or decoration to the spine. There are pictorial drop initials at the beginning of each book of the Bible and Apocrypha. This specific printing is said to have remained the standard text until the printing of Dr Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762. Leather. Average. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel Hardcover
190066182Oxford / London: Oxford University Press / Henry Frowde 1900. 8vo. 1000 2 12 pp. Zaehnsdorf gilt decorated green brown morocco exhibition binding with Sacred Heart devices dated 1900 and with the blind exhibition stamp at the rear pastedown. All edges gilt and decorated turn ins and silk endpapers. Ribbon bookmark detached from the binding. With 12 colour maps of the ancient / biblical world to the rear. Light fading around edges of binding. Some foxing to endpapers and minor fraying to page edges but otherwise internally clean. Binding firm. With a number of hand written prayers enclosed. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Morocco. 1900. Oxford University Press / Henry Frowde (1900) unknown
154049324Paris: F. Gryphius 1540. Two parts in one volume 16mo in 8s. 199 1 blank; 136 16 indexff. "Novvm testamentum" in cartouche vignette at title-page along with Gryphius' griffin device Renouard 413; 90 three-quarter page including repeats and 15 smaller woodcut illustrations including repeats; 21 historiated initials and woodcut lettrines; cartouche vignettes with book titles; printed marginalia; half-title for the second part Epistles and the Book of Revelation. Text not divided into verses; occasional quotations in Greek. Later vellum over boards; manuscript title at the spine faded; speckled paper endleaves; edges stained red. Light dampstain at bottom margins extending up into text and gutter at the later leaves; small puncture at leaf 140 resulting in slight loss of text. A good complete copy of a very scarce illustrated New Testament with clean woodcut illustrations throughout.<br /> <br /> Collation: a-z8 &8 Aa8 A-T7 blank leaf 200; lacks final blank T8.<br /> <br /> Third Gryphius New Testament in 16mo format. Arranged in two parts with the Epistles and the Book of Revelation presented separately it reproduces the Vulgate text edited by Robert I Estienne for his Latin Bible edition of 1532. While some of the woodcuts appear in Gryphius' complete octavo Bible of 1541 this separate Testament is even more lavishly illustrated. Based upon Mortimer's description of the 1541 Bible we can ascertain that at least some of the Apocalypse woodcuts in the present volume are based on Holbein while most of the other illustrations whose blocks had been completed by 1539 "are relatively independent of earlier sets" Mortimer.<br /> <br /> An important shift in Bible illustration occured in the Netherlands in the late 1520s as printers began to focus on copiously illustrated small format editions of the New Testament to better explain the text and assist private devotion. The subtitle in our volume "cum ad ueritatem historiae tum ad uenustatem singulari artificio expressis" with the truth of history as well as beauty expressed by a singular artifice is clearly suggestive of this shift. Adopting this new format François Gryphius became the "first Paris printer to illustrate a Bible in the Renaissance style" Johnson quoted in Mortimer. These illustrations first appeared in the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation in Gryphius' pocket New Testament edition of 1537 Novum Testamentum additis picturis in Acta Apost. et Apocalipsin quibus miracula et visiones exprimuntur The New Testament with added illustrations in the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation depicting miracles and visions. Subsequent editions would include an expanding suite of woodcuts and were published at Paris by Gryphius under the present title in 1539 1540 1541 and 1542; Antwerp editions appeared in 1542 and 1545. The suite of illustrations in the present work is identical in placement and inventory with the data cited by Mortimer for the 1541 edition 90 cuts by repetition of 58 blocks from the larger set and 15 cuts by repetition of 6 small blocks and confirmed by inspection of the digitized version of the 1541 edition at the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon. The only notable differences in graphic materials between the two editions appears occasionally in the selection of woodcut initials; the later edition also has several more unset initials indicated by guide letters than appear in our 1540 edition. <br /> <br /> All editions are quite scarce with only a handful of copies of each surviving.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: Old entries at paste-down and front endleaf of George Woodhouse with his note about prior provenance dated May 1875; E. Holwell noting "This curious edition published in A.D. 1540" References: Cf. Deleveau & Hillard Bibles imprimées Paris 1539 and 1542; Antwerp 1542; Le Long/Masch 2.3 1783 p.279 Paris ed. 1542; R. Mortimer French 16th Century Books no.70 ed. 1541 illustrating woodcuts on a3 recto and P3 recto as per our copy and no. 69 8vo Bible 1541. For a discussion of the development of the woodcut series in these Gryphius pocket bibles see: A.F. Johnson "Some French Bible illustrations" Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1935 p.190.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: Novvm testamentum illvstratum insignium simulacris cum ad ueritatem historiae tum ad uenustatem singulari artificio expressis. Excudebat Fran. Gryphius An. M.D.XL. Cum priuelegio Regio.<br /> <br /> Typeface: Gryphius's own Brevier Roman or Petite-Text with scattered Greek. U. Aberdeen note via OCLC. F. Gryphius unknown
177653321Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1776. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes folio published in 1776 and 1780. xxiii title and subscribers' list 1 blank VIII preface 684 1 catalogue of manuscripts 1 blank; 4 title and subscribers' list 732 129 1 blank 6 indicespp. Expertly rebound in modern quarter vellum over marbled boards spines titled in gilt. Titles darkened and dusty; very occasional light foxing or oxidation spots; dampstain at bottom quarter of the first twenty and final four leaves in the first volume else a nearly fine wide-margined set crisp and uncut.<br /> <br /> First edition and the "earliest attempt to provide a critical edition of the Hebrew Scriptures on a large scale†D&M and a notable early example of a large-scale scholarly project which attracted international financial and scholarly support. The biblical scholar Benjamin Kennicott 1718-1783 was educated at Oxford and "instructed in Hebrew by Professor Thomas Hunt and the greater part of his life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament. Robert Lowth always his major patron first inspired him with a desire to test the accuracy of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. With his formidable knowledge of Syriac early Latin the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task. His critical examination of manuscripts initially in the British Museum and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge began in 1751 and when Thomas Secker then bishop of Oxford and also a member of Exeter College urged him in March 1758 to undertake their collation he agreed to the request. In return Secker when archbishop of Canterbury gave Kennicott his unstinting support and friendship when for a time he nurtured a project for producing a revised Authorized Version of the Bible. Meanwhile in 1753 Kennicott issued The State of the Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament Considered: a Dissertation and in 1759 he brought out a second dissertation on the same subject. He identified his object thus: to compare Scripture with itself to explain a difficult phrase or passage by a clear one that bears some relation to it to consider the natural force of the Original Words the tendency of the Context and the Design of the Writer; to compare the most ancient editions of the Original with one another and with the best copies of the most celebrated versions vol.1 p.12. These volumes were translated into Latin by W. A. Teller and published at Leipzig the first in 1756 the second with additions in 1765.<br /> <br /> Kennicott's scholarly endeavours attracted support in Britain and beyond. In England subscriptions amounted to £9119 7s. 6d.; in France the duc de Nivernois a former French ambassador to the court of St James patronized him and helped him to gain access to Parisian manuscript collections in 1767; the king of Denmark offered him the use of six ancient manuscripts; four quarto volumes of variant readings were sent to him on the king of Sardinia's orders; and the stadholder of the Netherlands made an annual donation of 30 guineas. His first report On the Collation of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament was forwarded to the subscribers in December 1760 and a similar statement appeared each year until 1769. This annual summary afforded him an opportunity to defend the accuracy of his own collations the Hebraic scholarship of the staff assisting him and to print lists of subscribers. A copy of the entire work was personally presented by Kennicott to George III. Lowth called the 1776 variorum Old Testament 'a work the greatest and most important that has been undertaken and accomplished since the Revolution of Letters' B. Hepworth Robert Lowth p. 145" Nigel Aston ODNB. An early judgement on this seminal edition is provided by William Orme in his 1824 Bibliotheca Biblica: “This is beyond all comparison the most splendid edition of the Hebrew Scriptures ever published. It was patronized by most of the crowned heads of Europe. It occupied its learned editor in preparation or actual labour more than thirty years. More than six hundred MSS. and editions were collated for it in all parts of Europe. The text is that of Vander Hooght without the points. The Samaritan Pentateuch where it differs from the Hebrew text is printed in parallel columns in the Hebrew character. The various readings are almost innumerable and occupy in general the largest half of every page. The Dissertatio Generalis annexed to the second volume is invaluable for the information which it contains respecting the state of the original text and the sound principles of criticism which it exhibits." The final leaf lists 312 manuscripts and some printed editions which provided the various readings noted throughout the apparatus. The concluding Dissertatio Generalis was republished separately at Braunschweig in 1783 by professor Paul Jakob Bruns who assisted Kennicott in his collations.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the Parochial Library of St Phillips Birmingham in the County of Warwick at front endleaf in both volumes. References: N. Aston "Benjamin Kennicott" in: ODNB. Darlow & Moule 5160. ESTC T147508. Orme Bibl. Biblica 238. For a notable recent discussion see J. Turner Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Princeton Univ. Press 2014 77f. An earlier assessment of the critical endeavors of Kennicott and De Rossi appears in N. P. Wiseman's 1836 Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion pp.368-371 ed. Dublin 1866. The Clarendon Press hardcover
Limited to 975 copies. AnCleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company 1949. folio. pp. xxii 1 leaf 941 1 1 leaf. text in double columns. decorative ornaments & initials. original gilt-stamped cloth a few scratches & some spotting to covers light dampstain to lower spine some occasional light thumbing Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949 hardcover