BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1640-39.

BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1640-39.

2o (414 x 250 mm). Gothic and Roman types, text double-column and printed within woodcut rule-border. Calendar printed in red and black. Letterpress general title and section title for the New Testament within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 213]. Numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces, historiated and ornamental initials. (Marginal repaired tears on Qq6 and Ppppp6, marginal repaired tear crossing 3 lines of text on Aaaaa6, some occasional pale soiling, some very pale intermittent marginal dampstaining, generally clean and crisp.) Nineteenth-century brown hard-grained morocco, ruled in blind and black on covers, gilt-lettered on spine, inner hinges reinforced with calf, edges gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: J.C. Wright (bookplate); Daniel Gurney (1791-1880), banker and antiquary (bookplates, one on verso of New Testament title); W.H. Morris (bookplate, pencil note on flyleaf noting that he rebound the book in 1882).

A tall copy of the last of the folio editions of the King James, or Royal, version of the Bible printed in black-letter between 1611 and 1640. Darlow & Moule 421; Herbert 543; STC 2339.