Accession number
PML 2021-25
Published
Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1611.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, ca. 1906.
Notes
"The editors who passed the book through the press were Miles Smith ... and Thomas Bilson ..." -Darlow & Moule, 1:134.
Black letter; double columns, 59 lines; marginal readings.
For full description and minute collation of the first and second issues of the 1611 ed. and following editions, see James Lenox, Early editions of King James' Bible, 1861; H. Cotton, Editions of the Bible, 1852; W.J. Loftie, A century of Bibles, 1872; British and Foreign Bible Society Historical Catalogue 1:133-136 (no. 240); John Rylands Library, Manchester, The English Bible ..., 1899. Lea Wilson in his Bibles ... in English, 1845, p. 97-100, gives a detailed description of these editions, with the exception of the first issue, which he apparently had not seen, his "first edition" being the second issue.
New Testament t.p. within woodcut border representing the tents and shields of the twelve tribes, the twelve apostles, and the four evangelists: "The Newe Testament of Our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, newly translated out of the originall Greeke, and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker ..., Anno Dom. 1611.
T.p. engraved on copper, the title within a design, with full length figures of Moses and Aaron at the sides and the four evangelists at the corners, signed: C. Boel fecit in Richmont; verso of t.p. blank.
Black letter; double columns, 59 lines; marginal readings.
For full description and minute collation of the first and second issues of the 1611 ed. and following editions, see James Lenox, Early editions of King James' Bible, 1861; H. Cotton, Editions of the Bible, 1852; W.J. Loftie, A century of Bibles, 1872; British and Foreign Bible Society Historical Catalogue 1:133-136 (no. 240); John Rylands Library, Manchester, The English Bible ..., 1899. Lea Wilson in his Bibles ... in English, 1845, p. 97-100, gives a detailed description of these editions, with the exception of the first issue, which he apparently had not seen, his "first edition" being the second issue.
New Testament t.p. within woodcut border representing the tents and shields of the twelve tribes, the twelve apostles, and the four evangelists: "The Newe Testament of Our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, newly translated out of the originall Greeke, and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker ..., Anno Dom. 1611.
T.p. engraved on copper, the title within a design, with full length figures of Moses and Aaron at the sides and the four evangelists at the corners, signed: C. Boel fecit in Richmont; verso of t.p. blank.
Description
[38], 34 p., [714] leaves : ill., map ; 42 cm
Provenance
Manuscript notes ca. 1615 on questions of Biblical interpretations and signature of Laurence Chaderton, 7 January 1615; a list of recommended Biblical commentaries in the hand of Laurence Chaderton, one of the revisers, on the front pastedown of the first volume; ownership inscriptions of the "loyalist lady" Jane Lane, Lady Fisher (who helped Charles II to escape from England during the Civil War); bookplate of the earl of Aylesford.
Binding
Interleaved and expanded to five volumes bound in full calf with the royal arms stamped in gilt on both covers and with the initials I.F. stamped in blind. The arms are those of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. After he died in 1612, the stamp was also used by Charles I when he was heir apparent. See correspondence in the departmental file and Quaritch, A catalogue of fifteen hundred books remarkable for the beauty of the age of their bindings (1889), item 966.
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