1684 KING JAMES BIBLE IN LOVELY CONTEMPORARY CALF WITH SILVER FITTINGS

BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the former Translations diligently Compared. London: Printed by the Assigns of Bill, Newcomb and Hill, 1684. 12mo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-tooled spine and covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary silver centerpieces, corners and clasps. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6200.

Seventeenth-century King James pocket Bible, beautifully bound with contemporary silver centerpieces, corners and clasps.

The King James Version of the Bible, first published 1611, has exercised an incalculable impact on piety, language and literature throughout the English-speaking world. Macaulay praised it as "a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power" (PMM 114).
Without Apocrypha; bound with a 1683 metrical psalter. Herbert 792. Darlow & Moule 622. Owner signatures, genealogy notes.

Interior clean, a bit of wear to spine ends, silver fittings fine and fully functional.