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Lot 225
Sedgley (Thomas, binder). The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesties special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1701, engraved general title by Sturt, letterpress New Testament title, Apocrypha present, some woodcut decorative initials, occasional minor spotting and marks, titles and borders ruled in red throughout the volume, Dutch gilt pink endpapers with foliate design, all edges gilt, fine contemporary mosaic binding of scarlet morocco by Thomas Sedgley, extremities rubbed with some wear in places, with joints split and loss to head and foot of spine, some surface losses to spine and covers (particularly to the former), gilt roll decorated raised bands, compartments of spine and both covers densely decorated with a plethora of gilt decorated coloured onlays, forming strapwork designs filled with a profusion of gilt tools and rolls, including leaf sprays, fleurons, seedheads, grotesque face tool, tulip, carnation, and sunflower tools, Tudor roses, etc, edges with seedhead roll, turn-ins with pelmet roll and triple fillets, thick folio (52.5 x 34 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 868.This edition of the Bible is understood to have been supervised by William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester. The text, printed in large type, fills 1456 pages. Besides the revised marginal dates and chronological Index, the book contains a long note on Jewish Weights and Measures, etc., compiled by Richard Cumberland (1631-1718), Bishop of Peterborough, whose essay on this subject, dedicated to his friend Samuel Pepys (as President of the Royal Society), appeared in 1686. This matter is sometimes appended, with other tables, to subsequent editions of the Bible. In this edition the date of the Nativity is taken as the central event in history, and apparently for the first time in an English Bible the years are reckoned as either 'Before Christ' or 'Anno Domini.' It should be noted that this chronology of the 1701 London folio (since reproduced in most editions of the King James' version) and inserted without any authority in English Bibles for the last two centuries, was based on the Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti (1650-54), compiled by the James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh. John Lewis (A complete history of the several translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English, 3rd edition, 1818, p. 350) states that this Bible was included among those condemned by the Lower House of Convocation in 1703 for their gross errors (Herbert).Unmistakably the work of Thomas Sedgley (1684-1761), this magnificent mosaic binding - which stylistically bears all the hallmarks of Sedgley's best work - incorporates a number of tools found on other bindings known to be by his hand, such as a wheel of five leaves revolving around its centre and a tulip tool (see number 138 in Maggs, Bookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1075, Part I). It also utilises a highly distinctive grotesque face tool, illustrated in John P. Chalmers's article 'Thomas Sedgley Oxford Binder' in The Book Collector, Autumn 1977, pp.353-370 (number 45). This tiny tool, very like a gargoyle head, is easily overlooked, and its inclusion on this sacred tome is likely to be a kind of private jest on the part of the binder. Chalmers illustrates a mosaic binding by Sedgley similar to ours, on a 1715 Book of Common Prayer, belonging to All Souls College, Oxford. Another such is number 59 in Howard Nixon's Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, covering the dedication copy of John Theobald's Albion, printed in Oxford in 1720 (British Library C.27.f.10). Nixon notes that the Theobald "forms one of a small group of mosaic bindings, sharing the same coloured interlacing strapwork and the same unusual leaf tools, which seem to have been executed in Oxford", mentioning the All Souls prayer book as one of this select group, as well as a three-volume Xenophon, published in Oxford, 1727-35, and a Greek New Testament, printed at Cambridge in 1632, both in the Broxbourne Library.Proceeds from the sale of this lot in aid of All Saints Church, Preston, Gloucestershire and St. Michael & All Angels, Moccas, Herefordshire.
Lot 163
A Royal Worcester blue porcelain vase, circa 1902, shape number 991, painted with flowers, printed and painted marks, 8cm high, further vase, circa 1909, of baluster form, shape number 285, painted with flowers, printed and painted marks, 7cm high, and a porcelain dressing table box and cover, circa 1909, painted with flowers, printed marks. (3)
Lot 153
A Royal Worcester blush porcelain vase, c1900, of elongated baluster form, shaped no 1748, painted with sprays of flowers, printed and painted marks, 18cm high, a vase, c1921, of twin handled baluster form, painted with sprays of flowers, printed and painted marks, 18cm high, and a further vase, c1914, of twin handled baluster form, shape no 850, painted with sprays of flowers, printed marks, 16cm high. (3)
Lot 161
A Royal Worcester blush porcelain potpourri bowl, with pierced integral cover, circa 1907, shape number 302, printed marks, 10.5cm wide, and a Royal Worcester porcelain vase, circa 1910, of twin handled slender necked baluster form, shape number 784, painted with flowers, printed and painted marks, 18cm high. (2)
Lot 137
A Royal Worcester blush porcelain vase, dated mark unclear, of twin mask head handled baluster form, shaped no 1552, painted with sprays of flowers, printed and impressed marks, 16cm high, and a further blush porcelain vase, c1898, of twin handled pear shaped form, shape no 982, painted with sprays of meadow flowers, printed and painted marks, 17cm high. (2)
Lot 140
A group of Royal Worcester blush porcelain, comprising a basket shaped vase, c1934, with lions head terminals, shape 6/50, painted with flowers, printed marks, 13cm high, a twin handled vase, c1935, of pear shaped baluster form, shape no 982, painted with sprays of flowers, printed marks, 12cm high, and a further vase, c1934, of partially spiral fluted form, shape no 958, painted with floral sprays, printed marks, 8cm wide. (3)
Lot 218
A group of collectors ceramics, comprising a Beswick cabbage leaf plate, Zsolnay Pecs bowl, an NTR of France Limoges side plate, two miniature Royal Worcester character jug, a Carlton ware milk jug, a Doulton style silver rimmed vase, a Royal Doulton Dusty dog wood figure, two Victorian painted beakers and a blue and white serving tray. (a quantity)
Lot 131
A Royal Worcester porcelain jug, c1890, of lobed and moulded form, with a gilt elephant's head and tusk handle, shape no 419, painted with meadow flowers, printed and painted marks, 15cm high, together with a blush porcelain trumpet shaped bud vase, c1900, shape no 1790, painted with grasses, printed and painted marks, 14.5cm high, (AF). (2)
Lot 165
A Royal Worcester porcelain coffee saucer, circa 1927, painted by H Stinton, with Highland cattle, porcelain vase of twin handled form, circa 1908, shape number 176, painted by Cole, with dog roses and other flowers, printed marks, 6cm high, and a Royal Worcester porcelain butter tub, circa 1924, of barrel form, painted by H Powell with a bullfinch, printed and painted marks, 7.5cm wide. (3)
Lot 169
A Royal Worcester porcelain vase, circa 1911, of baluster form, painted with roses, printed marks, 10cm high, a Royal Worcester miniature mug, circa 1888, painted with a goldfish and thistles, versa a yew branch, printed mark, Grainger's Worcester miniature porcelain coffee cup, painted with a bird and flowers, and a Locke and Company Worcester porcelain vase, painted by H Wall with a peacock, 11.5cm high. (4)
Lot 524
A Royal Worcester Evesham part dinner service, comprising oval tureen, circular tureen, three flan dishes, large serving bowl, fruit bowl, shell dish, ramekin, oven ware dish, teapot cover, teapot, three small ramekins, pin dish, two breakfast cups, four teacups, oval pin dish, miniature teapot, four bowls, four small plates, four medium plates, and four dinner plates. (a quantity)
Lot 157
A Royal Worcester blush porcelain jug, circa 1902, shape number 1047, painted with a butterfly and meadow flowers, printed marks, 21cm high, a jug circa 1911, of compressed form with a gilt handle, shape number 109, painted with sprays of flowers, printed marks, 11cm high, and a porcelain cream jug, circa 1895, of barrel form, painted with flowers, printed and painted marks, 7cm high. (3)
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