Bibles [English]

A collection of 4 volumes, including:

The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke…, general and New Testament titles, New Testament title dated 1610, blackletter, with the apocrypha, Aa7, Ss3 with contemporary signature, Yy6 inscribed by ‘J. John, provost’, 1666; Iii2-3 inscribed with birth details (John Neason?), title page and front free endpaper coming loose, H8, I6, K2-K4, Oo5, Yyy7 with some loss or short tears, Oo4 with a large tear, browning and spotting, intermittent staining and ink marking, text block trimmed with occasional loss to text and inscriptions at foredge, early-19th century calf gilt, worn, some cracking to spine and loss to title label, [Herbert 307], 4to in 8s, Robert Barker, 1611 § The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues…, general and New Testament titles, with apocrypha, index and table at rear, Iiii2 with inscription at foot, Rr2 and a few other leaves with short tears, text block trimmed, some spotting and browning throughout, [Herbert 1078], near-contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, restoration to corners, head of spine and rear joint, Oxford, Thomas Baskett, 1747 § The Holy Bible…, General and new testament titles, engraved plate with loss to lower right-hand corner, short tear to title, with apocrypha, index and tables at rear, B2, staining, intermittent wormtrailing at foot affecting text, intermittent staining, tear to final leaf, signature of Daniel Prince dated 1792 to front pastedown, [Herbert 1219], Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1772 [bound with at front] The Book of Common prayer…, Cambridge, printed by John Archdeacon, 1770, contemporary Cambridge-style calf, worn to extremities § v.s., with another similar incomplete (4)