Live auction - Lot 1410
The whole Book of Psalms, collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew [...].
Subject: [Bible - Psalms]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
London, Ch. Rivington for the Company of Stationers, 1772
Large 8vo: [152] ff.
Contemp. richly gold-tooled raspberry red morocco, on covers elaborate gilt ornamental borders and corner pieces, oval central gilt inlaid green and black leather with border of flames and central "IHS" device, gilt flat spine, gilt sides, gilt inside ornamental border, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, olive silk marker. Excellent copy.
An edition of the most popular English translation of Psalms. Title within double ruled border.
Ref. ESTC T91923 (only 9 copies). - Not in Bibles Paris.
Prov. "Mrs. Coates | Dockwray Square | 1779." (large gilt red leather bookpl.). - Ivor A.B. Ferguson (1874-1938), English collector (armorial bookpl.).
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