(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red morocco, panell

BIBLE

(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768.

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, By His Majesty’s special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches.

4to. Engraved frontispiece of Christ in Majesty by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman. Two columns. Unpaginated. Collation: [-]2, A-Ddd8, Eee2, *A-*M8 (Apocrypha), Fff-Yyy8, Zzz4.

Contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double panel, the outer panel with a small pyramid of semi-circles at the centre of each side and a fleuron at the outer corners; spine with six panels, the second lettered in gilt on a black morocco label, the others elaborately tooled in gilt; spot=marbled endleaves; all edges gilt; two green silk markers (slight rubbing at the band-ends, headcaps and corners, otherwise fine and bright).

Cambridge: for John Archdeacon Printer to the University, [etc.], 1768.

£4,000.00

BIBLE

(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768.

Signature on the title “Mary Burton 1769”. Inscription on the front flyleaf: “The Gift of Mary Barton to Miss Mary Mauleverer her Goddaughter- on her Death - The above Mary Burton was Eldest Daughter to John Fawsitt Esqr. of Hull.”

Mary Fawsitt was a daughter of John Fawsitt of Walkington Hall, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. She married Robert Burton, merchant of Hull in 1748, later of Hotham Hall, near Beverley; she died without issue in 1802. Mary Mauleverer was probably the spinster and heiress of Timothy Mauleverer (d. 1784), of Arnclifte Hall, Ingleby Arncliffe, North Yorkshire (1766-1833).

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(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768.

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