Accession number
PML 126217.2
Published
London : Printed by the Company of Stationers, 1649.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Engraved t.p., with heart-shaped center and the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve apostles, and the four evangelists.
N.T. has special t.p.: The New Testament of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ / newly translated out of the originall Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall commandment, with brief expositions of Theo. Beza upon the hard places and the annotations of Fr. Junius upon the Revelation.
Without the O.T. Apocrypha.
Includes indexes.
Extra-illustrated edition with [141] leaves of plates interleaved throughout with text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English by William Slatyer, and engravings by Jacob van Langeren.
Each page hand-ruled in red.
Signatures: A-2Q⁸, 2R⁴, 2S², 3A-3Q⁸ (misprinting 3L4 for R4).
N.T. has special t.p.: The New Testament of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ / newly translated out of the originall Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall commandment, with brief expositions of Theo. Beza upon the hard places and the annotations of Fr. Junius upon the Revelation.
Without the O.T. Apocrypha.
Includes indexes.
Extra-illustrated edition with [141] leaves of plates interleaved throughout with text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English by William Slatyer, and engravings by Jacob van Langeren.
Each page hand-ruled in red.
Signatures: A-2Q⁸, 2R⁴, 2S², 3A-3Q⁸ (misprinting 3L4 for R4).
Description
1 v. (unpaged), [141] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), ports. ; 24 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front free endpaper of PML 126217.1: Presented by Elizabeth Hovell to Jane Saggers, August 2nd 1853, who gave it to Herbert Alston, October 9th 1874, who gave it to Gilbert Rowland Alston, April 6th 1901. Engraved presentation plate with inscription in PML 126217.2: I. Irvine, 1849, from E. Hovell.
Provenance
I. Irvine; Elizabeth Hovell; Thomas Sambrooke; Elizabeth Hovell; Jane Saggers; Herbert Alston; Gilbert Rowland Alston; collection of E. Clark Stillman.
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