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Embroidered Binding

Lot 122
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 470237
Lot 122 | Embroidered Binding
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Embroidered Binding

Holy Bible. 1622

EMBROIDERED BINDING – BIBLE, English. 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: by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches. London: Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1622 [but dated 1623 on colophon]. ESTC S90506.



[Bound with:] [SPEED, John (c.1552-1629)]. The genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, according to every family and tribe. With the line of our saviour Jesus Christ, observed from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary. [London: Thomas Snodham, 1624 or 1625]. ESTC S102330.



[And:] The booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others: conferred with the Hebrew: with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1619. ESTC S102036.



An exquisite contemporary Scottish embroidered binding worked in coloured silks and silver wire. Decorated with finely embroidered Biblical scenes and a delightful range of flowers, this is a remarkable example preserved in fine condition.



3 works in one volume, quarto (215 x 160mm). Text in double columns throughout, titles of Genealogies and Psalmes within typographic border, Holy Bible within woodcut border, Genealogies with double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land, woodcut initials, head-and tailpieces (Holy Bible lacking the ‘Apocrypha’ CCC5-OOO8, some headlines, signatures and catchwords trimmed, E7 in Psalmes with small ink smudge). Contemporary embroidered binding, covers with an elaborate decorative border of silver wire surrounding a panel containing four large flowers, enclosing a circular centrepiece depicting on the upper cover Abraham and his son Isaac and on the lower cover David in prayer, spine divided into six compartments, each embroidered with a different flower, remains of silk ties, edges elaborately gilt and gauffered, red silk pastedowns (light wear to corners). Provenance: [Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness].

Genre:Religious genre
Place of origin:Northern Europe
Auction house category:Books
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