Bible; English; Authorised Version
The Holy Bible
£504
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1680. Folio (46 x 29cm), unpaginated, signatures pi1 a-d2 (-d2) A-F4 G-4Q6 4R-4X2, contemporary boards (leather coverings mostly perished), 2 engraved title-pages, front board detached, spill-burn to general title affecting lower fore corner of engraved image, similar burns to index (4R-4X) with loss of a few words, closed tear to 4R2 (first leaf of index) [Herbert 756], together with 2 others (these not collated: Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, 1683, 2 volumes, folio, and Richard Allestree, The Works, 1685, folio) (4)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Calligraphic family genealogy mounted to front pastedown ('This Nativity of all Children of this family of Dollery', from Anna Murray in 1676 to Anthony Murray 1714', with stylised drawing of a swan to foot).