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The psalmes of King David / translated by King James.

Accession number
PML 2018
Published
Oxford : Printed by William Turner, printer to the famous university, 1631.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
2nd ed.
With colophon and printer's device.
Publication information from colophon.
Page [1] is engraved t.p.
Without music.
"A metrical version of the Psalms [of Sternhold and Hopkins], created at the wish of James I and chiefly translated by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling"--N.Y. Public Lib.
Engraved title with figures of King David and King James and frontispiece containing authorization to print by King Charles, signed William Marshall.
Description
[2], 319, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 coat of arms ; 14 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of Thomas Corser (sale, Aug. 1869, lot 685); M.C. Lefferts with his bookplate and the Irwin collection.
Binding
Old calf.
Classification
Department