A knot of Fooles. BUT, Fooles, or Knaves, or both, I care not, Here they are; Come laugh and fpare not. Printed at London for Francis Grove, and are to be fold at his shop on Snow-hil near the Sarazens Head without New-gate. 1658. See Item No. 220. From BROUGHTON'S CONCENT OF SCRIPTURE. 1590. (One of the earliest English bocks with Copperplate Illustrations). See Item No 225. Bibles continued. Dos-A-Dos BINDING 162 The New Testament. 12mo. London, 1626. The Booke of Common Prayer. Bound dos-à-dos. Contemporary English binding of brown calf, sides and back covered with a floral device in gold, gilt gauffred edges. £18 18s 163 The Holy Bible. Authorized Version (with Common Prayer and Musical Psalms). Very small type, woodcut title. Svo, contemporary English calf, full gilt floreate back, semis of flames on sides, with centre and corner laurel branches and initials S. B., gilt gauffred edges. London, 1629. £11 11s EMBROIDERED BINDING. 164 The Third Part of the Bible: Containing five excellent Bookes: most commodious for all 12mo. Very beautiful example of English Embroidered Binding of the time of Charles I., generally ascribed to the Nuns of Little Gidding. Ground work of white satin with both covers and back decorated with a floral device worked in coloured silks, and with further ornamentation in gold and silver throughout, gilt gauffred edges, silk end leaves. London, 1632. £35 Bibies continued. MAGNIFICENT ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK BINDING. 165 The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Engraved titles. Folio. Contemporary English silk binding with ornamental needlework design, the front cover containing centre piece of "the Deity," worked in silks of varied colours and silver threads, surrounded by an elaborate and raised frame, composed of silver threads; with corner medallions of the Apostles worked in silk and silver threads. The back cover is executed in a similar design, the centre-piece containing "the Saviour," but two corner medallions only, with ties, g. e. London, 1633. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. III.). An elaborate and beautiful Specimen of Needlework Binding. £225 EMBROIDERED BINDING. 166 The New Testament. London, 1640. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meter. London, 1640. Together in I volume, 16mo. A very charming specimen of English Embroidered Binding of the first half of the seventeenth century. Groundwork of white satin, both covers decorated with a large tulip and other ornamentation, in coloured silks, spangles, and gold and silver thread, the back decorated with a rose and primroses, in silks, and gold and silver thread. A Very Fine Example, and in unusually fresh condition. £52 10s Bibles continued. 167 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New Testament, newly translated out of the Originall Tongues. Woodcut borders to titles. russia. London, Barker, 1640. Black Letter. 2 vols., large folio, full *** A Fine Copy of the last of the folio Black Letter Bibles. £4 4s SCOTCH EMBROIDERED BINDING. 168 Old Testament and the New. London, 1642. The Psalmes of David in Meeter as they are sung in the churches of Together in 1 vol., 8vo (title missing to Old Testament) Scotch embroidered binding of the first half of the seventeenth century. On both covers a circular central panel and in each corner the device of a thistle, executed in silk over leather thongs (somewhat worn). £7 10s 169 The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. With engraved title, containing small view of London. 2 vols., 16mo, bound in full black morocco, delicately tooled in gilt on back and sides with small floral toolings, the centre of each cover bearing the date of execution (1738) worked into the general design, g. e. London, Printed by John Field, 1658 £5 5s *This Bible is called 'Spurious" in the B.M. Catalogue, though Fry and Lenox call it "genuine." Does not contain the words " Appointed. in an elaborate dated English binding. ." on the general title. A fine copy, |