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THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. | THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. | THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN METRE. (ONE VOLUME)
Edinburgh: Printed by Sir J. H. Blair and J. Bruce, 1799, 1800.
Quarto. Full Leather. The Old and New Testament of the King James Bible, with a separate issue of The Psalms of David in Metre bound in at the rear, published by the same printer the year after this edition of the Holy Bible. Also with an odd six-leaf signature for Proverbs laid in, from a small edition, and two extraneous leaves bound in, on the ‘State of the Church’ and a ‘Sketch of the Pagan, Papal, and Christian Church.’ Collates complete; 4o: A-5N4 [$1-2 signed] unnumbered leaves. 4o: A-E4 [$1-2 signed] unnumbered leaves. Discrete repairs by a conservator using Japanese tissue to the extremities of the spine and joints, especially the bottom of the rear joint. Full calf with a black leather label. (ESTC T166051).
Very Good binding.
Item #290706
Price: $450.00