1660 First Edition KING JAMES VERSION Cambridge ILLUSTRATED King Charles 1611

Description: THE AUTHORIZED (KING JAMES)VERSION OF THE BIBLE Published to Commemorate the the Coronation of King Charles II First Edition Cambridge, 1660 [Bible in English] The Holy Bible. Cambridge: Printed by John Field, 1660 [New Testament dated 1659]. Folio (App. 17.25 x 11.5 in). First Edition. An extraordinary lavish printing of the King James Version (1611), published in 1660 to honor the restoration of the British Monarchy and the Coronation of King Charles II. Featuring an ornate navy calfskin binding with six raised bands and a red morocco label with gilt to spine. Include the original clasps and decorative corner pieces, all in sterling silver. Text in double columns, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and decorative initials, title pages with decorative border and small printer’s device, an engraved frontispiece of the King’s Arms, ELABORATELY ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE OF SOLOMON ENTHRONED AND A FOUR-PAGE FOLDING PLATE OF JERUSALEM, AND THE DOUBLE-PAGED PLATES OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN (with other illustrations).This large, magnificently illustrated Bible is the creation of John Ogilby (1600-76), the Scottish miscellaneous writer whose name is attached to so many collectible illustrated folio editions of classical and geographical works. As ODNB indicates, Ogilby, “with the assistance of Dr John Worthington and other divines… brought out at Cambridge in 1660 a noble edition of the Bible, illustrated with ‘chorographical sculps’ by Ogilby himself, and engravings by Dutch Golden Age engraver Cornelis Visscher (1629-1658), after Rubens, de Vos, de Bruyn, Tintoretto and others. Having presented a splendidly bound copy of it to the king on his first coming to the royal chapel at Whitehall, he was commanded to supply other copies for use in the chapel, closet, library, and council chamber, at a cost of £200. He presented another copy to the House of Commons, for which he received £50”. Presumably flushed with such acceptance and monetary success, “he petitioned the king to prohibit anyone for 10 years from printing a folio Bible such as his, and to commend his edition to all churches and chapels, that he might thereby be encouraged in his design of printing a polyglot Bible”. He was apparently persuasive, because, according to Wing, the next folio Bible to be printed in England did not appear until 1674. This Bible would not have enjoyed wide use, however, because its size would very likely have confined its serviceability primarily to the church or chapel lectern. Pepys comments in his diary on 27 May 1667 that he was approached by a bookbinder with quiresof Ogilby’s Bible, and although Pepys purchased a copy, he comments that “it is like to be so big that I shall not use it”.REFERENCES: Darlow & Moule 525; Wing B-2258; ESTC R17044 and R31275 A well preserved copy of an extremely important text. _____________________________________ Items listed on eBay are merely representative of our broader inventory. We specialize in early printed Bibles in English, with a particular focus on first editions and other significant printings. Our stock includes a wide range of Tyndale New Testaments, as well as first editions of the Coverdale Bible (1535), the Matthews Bible (1537), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible (1560), the Bishops Bible (1568) and the King James Bible (1611). Please do not hesitate to enquire regarding other early printed books and manuscripts.

Price: 14500 USD

Location: Birmingham, Alabama

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