[Bishops' Bible] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Authorized and appointed to be read in Churches

Bible in English

Edité par Robert Barker, London, 1602

Summary
A 1602 pulpit folio Bishops? Bible used as the base text for the King James Bible with provenance of an important aristocratic family. A sumptuously bound Bible over beveled oak boards with detailed blind-tooling and silverwork.
Description
General title page (1602) with the first appearance of what would become the title page for the 59-line He and She Bibles. The twelve tribes, the twelve apostles on each side, the four evangelists with their gospel symbols around the letterpress, and the slain lamb in the center with the tetragrammaton above. Calendar printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden before Genesis. Text within ruled border, in two column black letter with 72 lines to the full column. Title page to the Apocrypha present. New Testament title page (1602) with architectural border. Woodcut maps, first chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
A-C^6, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Zzz^6, Aaaa-Nnnn^6, Oooo^4. Complete with all title pages.
Binding
Brown calf over beveled oak boards, expertly rebacked. Boards elaborately tooled in blind with silver clasps, center- and cornerpieces. Spine with five raised bands, compartments tooled in blind, and titles and dates lettered in gilt. Calf doublures. Gilt-stamped vellum endpapers. All edges gilt and gauffered.
Condition
Pages crisp, clean and bright with minimal toning and spotting in only a handful of places (e.g. lower margin of title page); printed on thick paper; bookplate of John William Pease to front endpapers; bookplate of D.B. to rear endpapers.
Provenance
The Sherard family (manuscript leaf and crest to centerpieces) ? John William Pease (1836?1901) by descent to the heirs of Wardington; offered at Sotheby?s Wardington Library sale, 2006. The Sherard family was an important aristocratic family. Robert Sherard inherited the peerage from his father, Philip Sherard. Robert was also known as the 6th Earl of Harborough, styled Lord Sherard. Robert never married, instead having a long-term relationship with a married woman, the actress Emma Sarah Calcroft Kennedy. His library was sold in London by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 9 June 1864.
Note
The last printing of the Bishops? Bible and, as the note in Herbert puts it, ?presumably [the one] used by the King James? translators? in their work. Robert Barker, who held the patent for printing the Bishops? Bible, provided 40 unbound copies of the 1602 edition for the project. This edition resembles the 1611 King James Bible in form and text more than any other.
References
Herbert 271; STC 2188; ESTC S122093; Luborsky 2188. N° de réf. du vendeur Q38

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : [Bishops' Bible] The Holy Bible, Containing ...
Éditeur : Robert Barker, London
Date d'édition : 1602
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Très bon
Edition : 1st Edition