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Sale 437
Estimate$1,000 – $2,000
some leaves bound out of order and a few supplied from other copies; top margin and fore edge are trimmed, with some loss of small print references and notes on both margins; numerous leaves with minor chipping to corners and some with small tears; ten leaves of text in Booke of Common Prayer section are variably discolored through exposure to moisture, resulting in weakened paper which has been strengthened by Japanese tissue; other pages lightly soiled. Numerous instances of previous owner names and markings in the book and written on the pastedown endpapers of the original boards (which are supplied), including Richard Cruse (1739 and 1776), J.F. Glover, John Fox, William Would, Mari and William Stacey/Lacey, Dartin Dartmouthe, Thomas Babbish and Edward Hurd (1650). 702 ff. Description: Preliminaries (8) Geneaology and Tables (14); Booke of Common Prayer (27); Old Testament and Apocrypha (401); New Testament (99); R.F.H's Two Right profitable and fruitfull Concordances... (82); Book of Psalms, incomplete (71). Signatures: A-C8 (A1 bound backwards, B4 repeated from another copy), A-Z8, Aa-Zz8 (lacking Xx8) Aaa-Sss8 (Eee2 in facsimile, lacking Eee 4-6, comprising most of the first 8 chapters of Matthew, no Hhh8 called for), A-K8, L2, A-F8, G7 (lacking G8), (possibly lacking A-C8) D-E8.
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