Accession number
PML 909
Published
[Cologne?] : [Printed by E. Cervicornus & J. Soter?], M.D.XXXV. [1535 (4 October)].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Notes
Place of publication and printers' names conjectured by STC.
Collation: [cross]⁸ (Nicholson issue), a-p⁶, aa-vv⁶, Aa-Hh⁶, Ii⁴, Aaa-Rrr⁶, A-N⁶, O⁶ (O⁶ a blank), AA-SS⁶, TT⁶ (TT⁶ a blank).
General and special title pages within woodcut border attributed to Holbein; historiated and ornamental initials. Map (imperfect) of the Holy Land, inserted before part 2.
The first edition of the printed English Bible.
Printing previously attributed to , formerly attributed to C. Froschouer, Zurich.
PML copy with t.p. in English rebacked, foreign t.p. in facsimile, perhaps [cross]2 in facsimile, [cross]C7 has "The bokes of the hole Bible" on reverse, initial I on sig. a1 in facsimile, map of the Holy Land (preceding aa1) partly in facsimile. Several leaves remargined; portions of a few leaves restored in facsimile.
Collation: [cross]⁸ (Nicholson issue), a-p⁶, aa-vv⁶, Aa-Hh⁶, Ii⁴, Aaa-Rrr⁶, A-N⁶, O⁶ (O⁶ a blank), AA-SS⁶, TT⁶ (TT⁶ a blank).
General and special title pages within woodcut border attributed to Holbein; historiated and ornamental initials. Map (imperfect) of the Holy Land, inserted before part 2.
The first edition of the printed English Bible.
Printing previously attributed to , formerly attributed to C. Froschouer, Zurich.
PML copy with t.p. in English rebacked, foreign t.p. in facsimile, perhaps [cross]2 in facsimile, [cross]C7 has "The bokes of the hole Bible" on reverse, initial I on sig. a1 in facsimile, map of the Holy Land (preceding aa1) partly in facsimile. Several leaves remargined; portions of a few leaves restored in facsimile.
Description
570 leaves (2 cols., 57 lines) : ill. (woodcuts), map (fold.)
Provenance
From the collection of Lea Wilson and the Earl of Ashburnham (Sale, London, 1897, lot 498).
Binding
In blue cloth case.
Classification
Catalog link
Department