White Kennett's copy.- Psalms, Latin.- Liber Psalmorum Davidis, commentary by François Vatable, text double column, title with woodcut printer's device, final f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, later ink notes to verso of title and colophon f., 20th century pencil markings, title little chipped, lightly soiled, and working loose, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, late 19th / early 20th century antique style blind-stamped sheep, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, spine with basic repair at head (but solid) and faded, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams B1435; Renouard, Estienne, 87:2], 8vo, [Geneva], Robert Estienne, 1556.

⁂ This edition with the traditional Vulgate text established by St. Jerome and the translation by Sante Pagnini in parallel columns, and with Vatable's extensive notes beneath. Here with an attractive provenance.

Provenance: White Kennett (1660-1728) English Bishop, antiquarian of some note, and brother of Basil Kennett (ink signature to title); Robert ?Coke, 1591 (ink signature and price paid at head of title); Edgar Powell, November, 1882 (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Elizabeth Armstrong, Estienne scholar, author of Robert Estienne Royal Printer, 1954 (20th century book label to front pastedown).