The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New.

NINETEEN PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT FAMILY RECORDS

Newly translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesties speciall command. Appointed to be read in Churches.

Engraved title-page with architectural border.

8vo. [235 x 173 x 70 mm]. Bound c.1850 in blue calf, the covers with a border of a gilt double fillet and a blind triple fillet. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with centres and corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt broken fillet, marbled endleaves and edges. (Minor scratching or scuffing to covers).
Cambridge printed by John Hayes, Printer to the Universitie, 1683.

Wing B2333. Darlow & Moule / Herbert 780. The date has been amended from 1682 to 1683. The New Testament was printed in Cambridge by John Hayes in 1680 and is entered separately as Wing B2684.

The engraved title for the Holy Bible is bound directly before:

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.
Cambridge: printed by John Hayes, Printer to the University, 1679.

Wing B3656

At the end is bound:

The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be sung in all Churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening Prayer, and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
[Cambridge?] printed by John Heyes, Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1679.

Wing B2534

Occasional minor browning, and with brief early ink notes and codes throughout the Bible, trimmed at the outer margins. At the front there are 19 pages of closely written manuscript enteries for the Lillington, Cooper and West familes. The early enteries were transcribed in 1857 and begin with Samuel Lillington, the fourth son of Richard and Honour Lillington who was born at Turners Piddle in the County of Dorset on the first of December 1686. Mary Lillington married John Cooper in 1737 and Elizabeth Cooper married Charles West in 1762. The last entry is for Peter Edward Francis Archibald West, born 17th August 1914, the son of Archibald Thornton West and Dorothy Margaret (nee Keyser) and grandson of William West, Director of Great Western Railway.

Stock no. ebc8184