POLYGLOT BIBLE – Biblia polyglotta . London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657. The Valmadonna copy of the fourth and “most useful ever printed” of the great Polyglot Bibles (Katz, God's Last Words ). Although edited by the royalist churchman Brian Walton, Oliver Cromwell allowed the paper for this edition to be imported tax free—for which he was thanked in the first version of the preface. However, immediately upon the Restoration, Walton printed a new version omitting any mention of the Lord Protector and distributed it to subscribers. The present copy is the “loyal” version, with the new preface but without the new dedicated to Charles II. Printed in Persian, Ethiopic, Samaritan, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Chaldaean, and Latin, Walton relied on the expertise of many of the greatest scholars of his age, including James Ussher, Robert Sanderson Henry Hammond, Edward Pococke, John Greaves, and Edmund Castell. It also includes several full-page illustrations by the Bohemian artist Weneslaus Hollar. Darlow & Moule 1445. Six volumes, folio (447 x 276mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Walton by P. Lombert; engraved general title by W. Hollar after I. Webb; additional title printed in red and black; ruled in red throughout, 5 engraved plates and a double-page map, woodcuts of coins and non-Roman alphabets in text (one plate with tear affecting image). 18th-century calf (rebacked and recornered). Provenance : Thomas Scranton (inscription) – H. Harrison, Brasenose College (morocco label on cover) – The Valmadonna Library.
POLYGLOT BIBLE – Biblia polyglotta . London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657. The Valmadonna copy of the fourth and “most useful ever printed” of the great Polyglot Bibles (Katz, God's Last Words ). Although edited by the royalist churchman Brian Walton, Oliver Cromwell allowed the paper for this edition to be imported tax free—for which he was thanked in the first version of the preface. However, immediately upon the Restoration, Walton printed a new version omitting any mention of the Lord Protector and distributed it to subscribers. The present copy is the “loyal” version, with the new preface but without the new dedicated to Charles II. Printed in Persian, Ethiopic, Samaritan, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Chaldaean, and Latin, Walton relied on the expertise of many of the greatest scholars of his age, including James Ussher, Robert Sanderson Henry Hammond, Edward Pococke, John Greaves, and Edmund Castell. It also includes several full-page illustrations by the Bohemian artist Weneslaus Hollar. Darlow & Moule 1445. Six volumes, folio (447 x 276mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Walton by P. Lombert; engraved general title by W. Hollar after I. Webb; additional title printed in red and black; ruled in red throughout, 5 engraved plates and a double-page map, woodcuts of coins and non-Roman alphabets in text (one plate with tear affecting image). 18th-century calf (rebacked and recornered). Provenance : Thomas Scranton (inscription) – H. Harrison, Brasenose College (morocco label on cover) – The Valmadonna Library.
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