The Holy Bible : containing the bookes of the Old & New Testament.

Accession number: 
PML 19499-500
Uniform title: 
Bible. English. Authorized. 1660.
Published: 
Cambridge [England] : Printed by John Field ..., 1660.
Description: 
2 v. : ill., front., double plates ; 44 cm.
Notes: 

Title page for volume I undated; title page for New Testament (volume II), dated 1659.
New Testament has separate t.p. with title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
General title for volume II: The Second Part of the Holy Bible ... with the Books of Apocrypha and the New Testament ... Printed Anno Dom. 1660.
"Illustrated with chorographical sculps by J. Ogilby."
The royal arms engraved by W. Hollar; "general title representing Solomon on his throne, designed by Diepenbeck, engraved by Lombart"--Darlow & Moule.
Dedicatory epistle to James II, unsigned.
Ruled in red.
Continuous pagination.
Woodcuts: historiated initials.
Plates designed by G. Hoet, B. Picart, A. Houbraken, and others, after P.P. Rubens, T. Tintoret, M. de Vos, N. de Bruyn, and others, engraved by G. v. d. Gouwen, J. v. Vianen, F. Bleiswyk, and others. Inserted in I Kings is a large plan of Jerusalem engraved by W. Hollar. v.2 has separate title-page with title: Figures de la Bible 1720. Engraved by B. Picart. With the Apocrypha, and with marginal notes. The majority of plates engraved by Claes Jansz Visscher ("Piscator", ca. 1550-ca. 1612) and his son Claes Jansz Visscher de Jonghe (1587-1660?).
Pasted on flyleaf of volume I: engraved portrait of Princess Henrietta Maria, Queen consort of Charles I, dated 1630, after a painting by Daniel Mytens, the elder, ca. 1590-ca. 1648.

Binding: 
17th-century English brown morocco, gold-tooled by Samuel Mearne, assumed to have been bound for Charles II (see collection correspondence). Charles II metalwork armorial centerpieces and cornerpieces/clasps likely 19th-century additions.
Provenance: 
King Charles II.
Classification: 
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