Lot 339
Bible, English, King James version
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
Description
Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, folio, one volume bound in 2, text in double columns, engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 60 engraved plates by I. Lindenberg after Rom de Hooge with Dutch verse beneath and 2 folding maps both shaved to neatline and repaired at centre fold, contemporary blue morocco, g.e., worn and scraped, joints splitting, chipped at foot of spines
Footnote
Note: "Copies of this folio edition are very scarce. The 'standard' edition prepared by Dr. F.S. Paris of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and H. Therold, fellow of Magdalene. In this Bible a serious attempt was made to correct the text of the King James' version by amending the spelling and punctuation, unifiying and extending the use of italics, and removing printers' errors" (Herbert 1142).