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June 21, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT (DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION)
The New Testament of Iesus Christ faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages … Set forth the second time, by the same College now returned to Doway. With addition of one new table of heretical corruptions, the other tables and annotations somewhat augmented. Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600
4to (8 1/8 x 6 in.; 207 x 152 mm). Title-page within border of printer's ornaments, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; title-page a trifle dust-soiled, with lesser occasional soiling throughout, D4 creased and so printed. Nineteenth-century calf, yellow-coated endpapers, red edges; quite rubbed, front cover detached.
Second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English. The principal change in this printing is the addition of "A Table of Heretical Corruptions" (d1–3).
REFERENCES
STC 2898; ESTC S102510; Herbert 258
PROVENANCE
F. J. Brown, bookseller of Swindon (ink stamp on rear flyleaf).