4to (10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 276 x 220 mm). Section-title for New Testament, titles within double-rule border and with woodcut printer's device; bound without index and tables, some very light browning. Contemporary London binding of red morocco gilt: covers richly decorated with rococo scrollwork incorporating flowers, birds and insects, with central green morocco oval inlay enclosing the Sacred Monogram, the whole surrounded by a gilt gloriole, spine richly gilt in six compartments, gilt dentelles and edges, marbled endpapers; tiny puncture to leather of upper cover, very slight wear to bottom corner of lower cover, otherwise a fine, fresh copy.

St. Andrew Ward Esq. of Hooton Pagnell (bookplate) — Lord Wardington (bookplate; Sotheby's London, 12 July 2006, lot 124)

Herbert 1196; ESTC T91970

4to (10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 276 x 220 mm). Section-title for New Testament, titles within double-rule border and with woodcut printer's device; bound without index and tables, some very light browning. Contemporary London binding of red morocco gilt: covers richly decorated with rococo scrollwork incorporating flowers, birds and insects, with central green morocco oval inlay enclosing the Sacred Monogram, the whole surrounded by a gilt gloriole, spine richly gilt in six compartments, gilt dentelles and edges, marbled endpapers; tiny puncture to leather of upper cover, very slight wear to bottom corner of lower cover, otherwise a fine, fresh copy.
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The first printing of the Oxford "standard" edition in a fine contemporary binding; the quarto immediately preceded the folio edition of the same year (see following lot). Harry Carter's 'History of the Oxford University Press' praises both the scholarship and typography of the Bible, crediting editor Benjamin Blayney's careful collation of earlier editions for producing "a remarkably correct edition," which the pressmen made "very restful to the eye."