The Holy Bible contayning the Old, and New Testaments newly translated out of ye originall tongues: and with ye. former translations: diligently compared and revised

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Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1657; Place: London; Publisher: Printed by John Field, one of his Highnes's printers
Library locations: Rare Book Division; Shelf locator: *KC 1657 (Bible. Holy Bible contayning the Old, and New Testaments)
Genres: Books; Book covers
Notes: Citation/reference: Brit. and for. Bible soc. Historical cat., 514; Content: Engraved t.-p., signed: Guli. Vaughan, scul.; Content: New testament t.p., dated 1656, has "Field."; Content: Without Apocrypha.; Content: With autographs of Susanna Hidson (later Parry?), Mary Parry, Anna Maria Sanderson Tomson, 1774, and Hester Gibbon.; Content: In 17th century English binding of embroidered silk, with a richly dressed woman (Bathsheba?) on the front cover, and King David on the back cover; with gilt edges and fore-edge painting with inscription "Susanna Hidson The Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam 16:7," possibly by Stephen and Thomas Lewis. For discussion of their style, cf. Kellaway, W. The fore-edge paintings of Stephen and Thomas Lewis. (In: The Guildhall miscellany. London. no. 8 (1957) p. 27-32).
Physical Description: Extent: 504 l. 18 cm. (12mo.).; Embroidery; Silk
Type of Resource: Text; Three dimensional object
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: 43169375; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14419814; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6e2eeb80-beed-013c-a305-0242ac110005

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