Accession number
PML 126347.2
Published
Oxford : Printed by John Baskett, 1723.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Contains a series of interleaved plates with a separate engraved t.p.: The historical part of the Holy Bible, or, The Old and New Testament exquisitely and accurately describ'd in near three hundred historys / engraven by John Sturt from designs of the great masters. [London] : Sold by Richd. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner.
Apocrypha has caption title; N.T. has separate t.p.: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / newly translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. "Tables of Scripture-measures, weights, and coins ... / by the R.R. Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough" follows the N.T.
Signatures: A² ²A-Z⁸ 2A⁸(+*2A3, *2A4) 2B-3P⁸ 3Q⁴ *3Q⁴ 3R-4H⁸ 4I² [a]-[d⁴] [e²](-[e]2) (misprinting [c3] for [c2]).
Apocrypha has caption title; N.T. has separate t.p.: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / newly translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. "Tables of Scripture-measures, weights, and coins ... / by the R.R. Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough" follows the N.T.
Signatures: A² ²A-Z⁸ 2A⁸(+*2A3, *2A4) 2B-3P⁸ 3Q⁴ *3Q⁴ 3R-4H⁸ 4I² [a]-[d⁴] [e²](-[e]2) (misprinting [c3] for [c2]).
Description
[1294] p., [129] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 28 cm.
Provenance
Inscribed by Sarah Mason, St. Michael's; collection of E. Clark Stillman.
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