Bible. English. Bound with 1616 Book of Common Prayer, decorated. London: R. Barker, 1616 THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTIES SPECIALL COMMANDEMENT. LONDON: IMPRINTED BY ROBERT BARKER PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1616 Folio (14 x 9 in.; 365 x 228 mm). General and New Testament titles within historiated woodcut border incorporating the Royal Arms, full-sheet map of the Holy Land, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, all richly colored by a contemporary hand and highlighted with gold, title-page and calendar only from the Book of Common Prayer, Genealogies with 34 pages of woodcut family trees, these leaves, and indeed every page of the volume handcolored and/or illuminated with dense geometric border designs with many initials, chapter headings and headlines highlighted in gold; a very few leaves with marginal fraying or soiling. Contemporary black morocco, panelled in gold and with strips of metal applied to the covers and board edges, spine gilt in eight compartments, plain endpapers, gilt edges; joints a bit worn, rubbed elsewhere, front cover faded.
Bible. English. Bound with 1616 Book of Common Prayer, decorated. London: R. Barker, 1616 THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTIES SPECIALL COMMANDEMENT. LONDON: IMPRINTED BY ROBERT BARKER PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1616 Folio (14 x 9 in.; 365 x 228 mm). General and New Testament titles within historiated woodcut border incorporating the Royal Arms, full-sheet map of the Holy Land, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, all richly colored by a contemporary hand and highlighted with gold, title-page and calendar only from the Book of Common Prayer, Genealogies with 34 pages of woodcut family trees, these leaves, and indeed every page of the volume handcolored and/or illuminated with dense geometric border designs with many initials, chapter headings and headlines highlighted in gold; a very few leaves with marginal fraying or soiling. Contemporary black morocco, panelled in gold and with strips of metal applied to the covers and board edges, spine gilt in eight compartments, plain endpapers, gilt edges; joints a bit worn, rubbed elsewhere, front cover faded.
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