Lot 10•
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old & New Testament, Robert Barker, [1611]
9 November 2016, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
The Bible That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old & New Testament, engraved general title-page (trimmed and laid down), woodcut ornaments on New Testament title (dated 1611), preliminary leaf A4 defective, small loss of text to 4 leaves, approximately 10 leaves frayed at margins, several slightly shorter, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms (dated 1612, STC 2539), manuscript index in an attractive eighteenth century hand on front and rear endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked [STC 2218; Herbert 312], folio (308 x 200mm.), Robert Barker, [1611]
Footnotes
The folio Geneva-Tomson-Junius edition of the Bible, printed in the same year and by the same publisher as the first edition of the Authorised version.
Provenance: Henry Morgan, several inscriptions (one dated 1662), another "Let it be known unto all men... that I Henry Morgan of the town of Abergavenny in the county of Monmoth, gent..." above mention of Mary Morgan dated 1662; also names of Philip Morgan (?earlier than that of Henry) and Elinor Morgan. The most celebrated Henry Morgan of Abergavenny was the celebrated privateer and colonial governor (c.1635-1688) but seemingly our Henry is not the same man; Martha Trotter, Coleford in Gloucestershire, several inscriptions (one dated 1823), and other Trotter family names.