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Breeches Bible The Bible. Imprinted at London By Robert Barker, [1607, lacking OT title, dated from
The Bible. Imprinted at London By Robert Barker, [1607, lacking OT title, dated from NT]. Folio, contemporary full calf, upper board detached and spine coming away; paginated: OT: ll. 4-444 [lacking [4], 1-3, 313-18, l.7 misnumbered 13, l.348 as 359], NT: 1-135 [lacking 44+47], Tables: [1-2] [lacking 3-7], signed: OT: A4-6, B6-3L6, 3M8-3O8, Apocrypha: 3P6-4E6, NT: 4F6-5E3, Tables: 5E4+5 [lacking ¶4, A1-3, 3G1-8, 4N2+5, 5E6-5F4, 2H3 missigned 2G3, 4A2 as 4A3]; decorated with woodcut head- and tail-pieces and floriated initials, woodcuts to text.
New Testament is Tomson Englishing of de Beza with Junius annotations to Revelations.
Herbert 289 (though signatures recorded as 3M6-3O6)
Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £200
. Binding heavily worn, uper board detached, spine cracking and coming to pieces, internal marking and dustiness, some marginal staining, creasing and fraying, A4+5 detached, A6-C2 loose at foot, C3+4 detached, small lower margin tear to 2A, marginal loss to 2A2-4 v. slight affect to text, 2A6 inner margin with loss, detached but present, short lower margin tear 2L5-6 and 2M1-2, 2N1 loose with marginal loss, marginal tear 3C2 affecting annotations, 4B1 torn at foot affecting text, large tear bottom section 4D6+4E1 affecting text, 4N1 inner margin torn affecting text, 4N3+4, torn and creased, restored, 4N6 torn away retaining inner margin, 4P4 upper corner lost affecting text, 4T1 lower marginal tear not affecting text, 5C5 central tear affecting text but no loss, 5E4+5 detached, creased and lost but present.
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