[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED RESTORATION ERA PERIOD BIBLE] The Holy Bi...

Hammer

£1,700

[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED RESTORATION ERA PERIOD BIBLE] The Holy Bible, 1679 [containing:]a.) Book of Common Prayer, 8vo, unpaginated, register runs A-H8 (but 2ff in gatherings B & C misbound) license verso of H8, red rubricated throughout, with portrait frontis & extra-illustrated with 13 plates, (a few oily marks from tape? residue, in the gutter etc.) London, Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hill, 1679.b.) The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament, and the New, 8vo, unpaginated, register runs A-Bbb8, complete, engraved title, (printed NT title at Iii1), extra-illustrated with 88 engr. plates with 'picture frame' surrounds; another 96 plates illustrate the N.T.; (a few minor faults; e,g, Ccc2 torn into the text), L. Bill, Newcomb and Hills, 1679.c.) Inserted between the O.T. & N.T. is the Apocrypha, unpaginated A-H8 but lacking 3 ff from gathering F.d.) Whole Book of Psalms, pp.96, London, E.T.R.H., 1679.In CONTEMPORARY red morocco "cottage roof" binding, multiple gilt tools, black morocco onlays, applied white metal corners & centre lozenges, rebacked with original spine, a.e.g. Ex-libris Marryat family.