BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 48 1663 King James Bible, In Stunning Contemporary Clasped Binding 68(BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. London, 1663. Small thick octavo, contemporary full black morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $12,500 Finely printed 17th-century edition of the King James Bible, in a stunning contemporary moroccogilt binding with elaborate morocco onlays and gilt designs to boards and spine, with a lovely fore-edge painting and silver clasps, bound by “Owen,” whose work is known in only one other example in the collection of the British Museum. Bound with this edition is a contemporary edition of Sternhold and Hopkins’ metrical Psalter. The binder of this copy used four principle tools in its production, making it identifiable as being by “Owen,” known only from one other example, a signed binding in the Henry Davis Gift collection at the British Library, which uses those same four identical tools. Tipped in early note attributing the binding to the well-known royal binder Samuel Mearne. Scattered foxing to text; expert restoration to joints, some dulling to fore-edge painting. A beautiful Bible. Cambridge “Preaching Bible,” 1666, In A Beautiful Contemporary Binding 69(BIBLE) (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge, 1666-68. Quarto, contemporary full morocco gilt. $8500 1666 Cambridge “Preaching Bible,” with engraved general title page, beautifully bound in contemporary morocco-gilt. “This edition [of the King James Version, first published 1611] is sometimes known as the ‘Preaching Bible,’ being well adapted for pulpit use; it is printed in small type, with a very full page” (Darlow & Moule 548). Includes Apocrypha. Bound with 1666 editions of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins’ popular and influential metrical psalter, and of the Book of Common Prayer, and a 1668 concordance. Herbert 697. Text quite clean and fresh, with one tiny burn mark to Bible leaf HH1, affecting a few letters; beautiful contemporary morocco with expert restoration to joints, spine ends and corners.
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