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1630 BIBLE in ENGLISH antique OLD & NEW TESTAMENT 17th CENTURY

1630 BIBLE in ENGLISH antique OLD & NEW TESTAMENT 17th CENTURY

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Bible [English].

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New:
Newly translated out of the originall tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall command.
Appointed to be read in churches


[Cambridge]: Printed by Tho: and John Buck printers to the University of Cambridge, [1630]


undated engraved general title by Jo. Payn,

New Testament title within ornamental border and with woodcut device (imprinted dated 1630),

Apocrypha present,

few leaves of Old Testament strengthened at head,

bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, with the Psalter and Psalmes of David,

[Cambridge]: printed by Thomas and John Buck, 1630

 woodcut device to title,

bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalmes:
Collected into English meeter,
by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others,
conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall


[Cambridge]: printed by Thomas and John Buck, 1630

 title within ornamental border

some damp-staining at head of Common Prayer and Bible (Old Testament),
some toning and occasional scattered spotting,

initial flyleaf with various manuscript genealogical entries such as recording the marriage of Matthew Crowe to Margaret Alexander on 20th November 1797, the birth of Margaret Alexander Crowe daughter of Matthew Crowe and Margaret 13th June 1799, also their two other daughters Eliza June Crowe on 29th Sept. 1800 and Mary on 13th December 1801


marbled endpapers,
mottled calf binding,

engraved clasp catch pieces to boards (without hinge latch attachments), 

repair to compartments at head and foot of spine,

and with contrasting calf labels to spine


Darlow and Moule 331; ESTC S117093; Herbert (Darlow & Moule Rev. 1968) 432; STC 2293.

This Roman text and the black letter issue of the same year are the first quarto editions of King James' version printed in Cambridge.

The text being a reprint of the Cambridge folio of 1629 (Herbert 424).

 Size 7 by 8 3/4 inches

Text in English

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