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The Psalter or Psalms of David, from the Bible of Archbishop Cranmer.

Accession number
PML 151409
Published
London : Edward Arnold ; New York : Samuel Buckley & Co., 1902.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Colophon: Here ends the Psalter; edited from the Cranmer Bible of MDXL by Janet E. Ashbee, and reprinted in honor of David the Great singer, at the Essex house press, Mile End, E. in the year MDCCCCII, under the care of C.R. Ashbee, who has also designed and drawn in woodcuts.
250 paper copies; 10 on vellum.
No. 21 in the Essex House Press list.
Title vignette, printer's device, verse ornamentations and titles of each Psalm in red.
Initials and some tail pieces in black.
Binding designed by C.R. Ashbee and bound by "G.H.", at the Guild Bindery.
Description
[8], 87, [1] p. ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Half olive pigskin over carved wooden boards.
Classification
Department