Lot 50
Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, Cambridge, by John Burges, 1798.
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, occasional spotting, family genealogy (1796-1961) in various hands at beginning and end, front free endpaper becoming detached, contemporary straight grain red morocco by ?Joseph Coxhead, with a gilt border of double fillets, a repeated double drawer-handle tool, floral roll and medallion in the corners, tan and black oval onlays to centre with gilt christogram within gilt sunburst motif, 5 raised spine bands, spine with double-bands, lettered in one panel, the others tooled in gilt on a dotted background, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Cambridge, by John Burges, 1798.
⁂ Although lacking any binders label, this binding very closely matches example 182 in Maggs catalogue 1212.
Description
Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, occasional spotting, family genealogy (1796-1961) in various hands at beginning and end, front free endpaper becoming detached, contemporary straight grain red morocco by ?Joseph Coxhead, with a gilt border of double fillets, a repeated double drawer-handle tool, floral roll and medallion in the corners, tan and black oval onlays to centre with gilt christogram within gilt sunburst motif, 5 raised spine bands, spine with double-bands, lettered in one panel, the others tooled in gilt on a dotted background, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Cambridge, by John Burges, 1798.
⁂ Although lacking any binders label, this binding very closely matches example 182 in Maggs catalogue 1212.