BIBLE, ENGLISH. The Bible: containing the Old Testament, and the New, London: Robert Barker, [1615], 4°, title with woodcut surround, engraved double-page map (cropped with some loss, one leaf of the genealogy table leaf lacking, others torn with loss, Psalms lacking all after F2, repaired along margins of F2, B4-C2 repaired with loss), late 19th-century vellum by the Shakespeare Press, silver trimming, corner pieces and clasps (upper cover detatched), g.e. [Herbert 339: "remarkable for the omission of the word Holy in the general title] Provenance: Lord Willoughby de Broke (bookplate); sold not subject to return.

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BIBLE, ENGLISH. The Bible: containing the Old Testament, and the New, London: Robert Barker, [1615], 4°, title with woodcut surround, engraved double-page map (cropped with some loss, one leaf of the genealogy table leaf lacking, others torn with loss, Psalms lacking all after F2, repaired along margins of F2, B4-C2 repaired with loss), late 19th-century vellum by the Shakespeare Press, silver trimming, corner pieces and clasps (upper cover detatched), g.e. [Herbert 339: "remarkable for the omission of the word Holy in the general title] Provenance: Lord Willoughby de Broke (bookplate); sold not subject to return.

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The Concordance in this copy is dated 1620, not 1615 as in the Herbert copy, while the Psalms are dated 1618.

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