Accession number:
PML 127597
Uniform title:
Bible. New Testament. English. 1596.
Published:
London : Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1596.
Credit:
Fellows Fund, special gift of Julia P. Wightman; 1993.
Description:
1 v. ; 24 cm (4to)
Notes:
The Geneva version in the revision of Laurence Tomson.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Bound in contemporary light-brown calf, heavily gilt to a radiating-centerpiece panel design, built up of a myriad of small tools of leafy sprays, volutes, and flowers, with a quatrefoil semé; boxed. An English binding in the French style or a French binding for the English market.
Provenance:
On center, the added ownership inscription in Latin of the Baptist College, Bristol, gift of Andrew Gifford, dated 1775, tooled in gilt directly on the calf or on onlaid horizontal bands of red leather.
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