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BIBLE, in English. - The Holy Bible, containing the Olde Testament and the New. London: Bonham No
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BIBLE, in English. - The Holy Bible, containing the Olde Testament and the New. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619. [bound with:] The Booke of Common Prayer. London: 1619; The Genealogies… by I.S. [N.p: n.d.]; The Whole Book of Psalmes. London: 1620. 8vo (166 x 110mm.) Lined in red throughout, 1 double-page map of the Holy Land, 1 full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve, numerous woodcut decorations. (Map shaved into the image area, occasional soiling.) Contemporary red satin binding, embroidered with an overall design worked in silver thread and coloured silks, the upper cover with a central roundel containing a stylized carnation, the surrounding design of scrolling foliage worked in silver with small polychrome buds and flower heads, the flat spine divided by worked thread into five compartments, each containing a polychrome flower spray, g.e. gauffered and painted in red with a stylized floral design (rubbed, hinges splitting, small areas of damage to embroidery, small areas of silver thread lacking or damaged, ?lacking preliminary blank). Provenance: Mary Cooke (signature to front free endpaper). Herbert 368.
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BIBLE, in English. - The Holy Bible, containing the Olde Testament and the New. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619. [bound with:] The Booke of Common Prayer. London: 1619; The Genealogies… by I.S. [N.p: n.d.]; The Whole Book of Psalmes. London: 1620. 8vo (166 x 110mm.) Lined in red throughout, 1 double-page map of the Holy Land, 1 full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve, numerous woodcut decorations. (Map shaved into the image area, occasional soiling.) Contemporary red satin binding, embroidered with an overall design worked in silver thread and coloured silks, the upper cover with a central roundel containing a stylized carnation, the surrounding design of scrolling foliage worked in silver with small polychrome buds and flower heads, the flat spine divided by worked thread into five compartments, each containing a polychrome flower spray, g.e. gauffered and painted in red with a stylized floral design (rubbed, hinges splitting, small areas of damage to embroidery, small areas of silver thread lacking or damaged, ?lacking preliminary blank). Provenance: Mary Cooke (signature to front free endpaper). Herbert 368.
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