THE NEW TESTAMENT

London: Robert Barker...by the Assignes of John Bill, 1633. Very Early Jacobean Printing. Tooled leather. Very Good +/Custom Case. 12mo, original full leather 17th century tooled and inlaid binding, engraved frontispiece, closely cut borders, all edges gilded, green silk page divider, decorative marbled endpapers, [viii blank] + ~ 524 + [vi blank] pages. THE NEW TES_/ TAMENT / Of our Lord and / S A V I O V R / - Jesus Christ Newly translated out of the / Originall Grrek : and / with the former transla- / tions diligently compared / and revised , by his Maie- / sties special commande- / ment. ---------------------------- Imprinted at London / By Robert Barker, Printer / to the Kings most Excel- / lent Majesty, and by / the Assignes of John Bill, 1633. Cum privilegia. A GEM! In an original tooled leather binding in remarkably well preserved condition . Beautiful clear and crisp type. Moderate and quite uniform age-toning to paper with the occasional smudge. Pages closely cropped by the printer so some chapter headings at the top have been partially excised, though not the text. Endpapers renewed. Generally, minimal wear. Finely bound in contemporary tan gilt-embossed calf over wooden boards, richly gilt to spine and covers. four hubs, and boards. Marbled pastedowns & endpapers [renewed], a.e.g. and gauffered. Spine very slightly rubbed with partial loss of caps at head and foot (restored and slightly visible). Edges of engraved title page reinforced with Japan paper. Previous owner's ink inscriptions on two front free endpapers naming "Edmund James Gore" & his London addresses. Housed in a protective clam-shell box custom made for this Rare and Precious 1633 edition of the Authorized King James version of the New Testament. Overall a VG+ copy. The continental binding on this small format Authorized version MAY be a pirated edition of the English Bible from Amsterdam. For example, the Stam printing family were printing small format Bibles in 1673-- after our publication (see Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, IV, p.467). Herbert 713-14, Wing B2511A. (Inventory #: 156)