BIBLE, in English. Oxford: at the Theater, sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1683. Engraved title and 107 engraved plates. Later re-issue of the 1675 edition with a re-engraved title-page. Herbert 784. [Bound second with:] The Book of Common Prayer. [Oxford:] sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Armes ... Cornhil, London, [1683]. Engraved title, portrait of Charles II and 5 plates. [And:] STERNHOLD, Thomas and John HOPKINS, translators. The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre. Oxford: printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1685. 4° (234 x 182mm). Ruled in red throughout. (Occasional very light soiling, tiny spot and light marginal wear to portrait, plate 5 repaired to verso with old tape, short tear & marginal chip to fore-edge with very slight loss to BCP title.) Contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide foliate border tooled in gilt, a central sun device with metal oval engraved with the arms of St. Aubyn, metal clasps and cornerpieces, two of which engraved with a branch in the form of a cross and a scallop connected by a tasseled rope, the others of a seven-headed hydra, and an erased lion's head of a coronet, the metalwork with the stamp 'E.H.', gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, the upper cover lightly faded with some loss of gilt, a short scratch). Provenance: Elizabeth St. Aubyn (large contemporary dark-blue gilt label to front pastedown 'Elizabeth St. Aubyn, her book. The gift of her dear father.')SPLENDIDLY BOUND BIBLE, PROBABLY GIVEN AS A WEDDING PRESENT. The St Aubyn family home is St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, which was purchased by Colonel John St Aubyn (1610-1684) in 1659. His son, Sir John (1645-1687, created 1st Baronet St Aubyn in 1671) married Ann Jenkyn with whom he had several children. Elizabeth St Aubyn (c. 1666-1735) is described as the second daughter of this marriage, and appears to have married into the Northmore family of south Devon; she is buried at St. Thomas, Exeter. The lion's head is probably Northmore, while the knot would seem to refer to the marriage.

BIBLE, in English. Oxford: at the Theater, sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1683. Engraved title and 107 engraved plates. Later re-issue of the 1675 edition with a re-engraved title-page. Herbert 784. [Bound second with:] The Book of Common Prayer. [Oxford:] sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Armes ... Cornhil, London, [1683]. Engraved title, portrait of Charles II and 5 plates. [And:] STERNHOLD, Thomas and John HOPKINS, translators. The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre. Oxford: printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1685. 4° (234 x 182mm). Ruled in red throughout. (Occasional very light soiling, tiny spot and light marginal wear to portrait, plate 5 repaired to verso with old tape, short tear & marginal chip to fore-edge with very slight loss to BCP title.) Contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide foliate border tooled in gilt, a central sun device with metal oval engraved with the arms of St. Aubyn, metal clasps and cornerpieces, two of which engraved with a branch in the form of a cross and a scallop connected by a tasseled rope, the others of a seven-headed hydra, and an erased lion's head of a coronet, the metalwork with the stamp 'E.H.', gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, the upper cover lightly faded with some loss of gilt, a short scratch). Provenance: Elizabeth St. Aubyn (large contemporary dark-blue gilt label to front pastedown 'Elizabeth St. Aubyn, her book. The gift of her dear father.') SPLENDIDLY BOUND BIBLE, PROBABLY GIVEN AS A WEDDING PRESENT. The St Aubyn family home is St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, which was purchased by Colonel John St Aubyn (1610-1684) in 1659. His son, Sir John (1645-1687, created 1st Baronet St Aubyn in 1671) married Ann Jenkyn with whom he had several children. Elizabeth St Aubyn (c. 1666-1735) is described as the second daughter of this marriage, and appears to have married into the Northmore family of south Devon; she is buried at St. Thomas, Exeter. The lion's head is probably Northmore, while the knot would seem to refer to the marriage.

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BIBLE, in English. Oxford: at the Theater, sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1683. Engraved title and 107 engraved plates. Later re-issue of the 1675 edition with a re-engraved title-page. Herbert 784. [Bound second with:] The Book of Common Prayer. [Oxford:] sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Armes ... Cornhil, London, [1683]. Engraved title, portrait of Charles II and 5 plates. [And:] STERNHOLD, Thomas and John HOPKINS, translators. The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre. Oxford: printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1685. 4° (234 x 182mm). Ruled in red throughout. (Occasional very light soiling, tiny spot and light marginal wear to portrait, plate 5 repaired to verso with old tape, short tear & marginal chip to fore-edge with very slight loss to BCP title.) Contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide foliate border tooled in gilt, a central sun device with metal oval engraved with the arms of St. Aubyn, metal clasps and cornerpieces, two of which engraved with a branch in the form of a cross and a scallop connected by a tasseled rope, the others of a seven-headed hydra, and an erased lion's head of a coronet, the metalwork with the stamp 'E.H.', gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, the upper cover lightly faded with some loss of gilt, a short scratch). Provenance: Elizabeth St. Aubyn (large contemporary dark-blue gilt label to front pastedown 'Elizabeth St. Aubyn, her book. The gift of her dear father.')

SPLENDIDLY BOUND BIBLE, PROBABLY GIVEN AS A WEDDING PRESENT. The St Aubyn family home is St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, which was purchased by Colonel John St Aubyn (1610-1684) in 1659. His son, Sir John (1645-1687, created 1st Baronet St Aubyn in 1671) married Ann Jenkyn with whom he had several children. Elizabeth St Aubyn (c. 1666-1735) is described as the second daughter of this marriage, and appears to have married into the Northmore family of south Devon; she is buried at St. Thomas, Exeter. The lion's head is probably Northmore, while the knot would seem to refer to the marriage.

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