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BIBLE, Gospels, Anglo-Saxon and English. The Gospels of the fower Evangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons, newly collected out of Auncient Manumentes of the sayd Saxons, and now published for testimonie of the same. London: John Daye, 1571.
Small 4° (188 x 134mm). Title within border of typographic ornaments. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) 19th-century dark blue old-style morocco tooled in blind, spine in compartments, by Riviere, edges gilt. Provenance: some early gloss and scoring in brown ink; note on fly-leaf at end 'Boone 1862. From the Saville Collection', probably Henry Savile, provost of Eton, his sale December 1860; William Gott (19th-century armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, translated from the Vulgate and printed in type used by Day in his 1567 edition of Aelfric's Sermon on Easter Day, with the English from the Bishops' version. The preface is by John Foxe, the martyrologist, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. STC 2961; Herbert 131; Darlow & Moule 1602.
Small 4° (188 x 134mm). Title within border of typographic ornaments. (Some leaves slightly soiled.) 19th-century dark blue old-style morocco tooled in blind, spine in compartments, by Riviere, edges gilt. Provenance: some early gloss and scoring in brown ink; note on fly-leaf at end 'Boone 1862. From the Saville Collection', probably Henry Savile, provost of Eton, his sale December 1860; William Gott (19th-century armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, translated from the Vulgate and printed in type used by Day in his 1567 edition of Aelfric's Sermon on Easter Day, with the English from the Bishops' version. The preface is by John Foxe, the martyrologist, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. STC 2961; Herbert 131; Darlow & Moule 1602.