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Lot 315: [KING, HENRY.]

Est: £1,500 GBP - £2,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

The Psalmes of David, From The New Translation of the Bible Turned into Meter... Ed. Griffin, and... to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, 1651

Artist or Maker

Condition Report

12mo, first edition, first issue, additional engraved title by Robert Vaughan, printed title within type-ornament border, 'Imprimatur' page, three leaves of woodcut musical notation, nineteenth-century purple straight-grained morocco, gilt fillets and ornamental blind border on covers, spine in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light soiling, annotation to A4, lacking final blank (n4), binding rubbed

Literature

Wing B2446; Grolier Wither to Prior 509; Keynes King 41

Provenance

Cardiff Castle, bookplate; Bute Library, pencil annotation (Christie's, 15 March 1995, lot 130)

Auction Details

The Library of John R.B. Brett-Smith

by
Sotheby's
May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK