| Condition: Trimmed close at top (at bottom in Psalms section) upon second binding (circa 1805). With wear to corners, generally rounded throughout. Worst wear to first few and last few pages. The Title Page is missing. Four pages missing internally. These are pages 61/62, from Numbers, Ch 26 --; and pages 131/132 from Deuteronomy, Ch 20--. These are Not collectible pages and Not book headings. I have no idea why or when they were lost. Please consider condition and look closely at the pictures before purchasing. This bible has the faults noted which should be considered before purchase. The binding is tight and no pages are loose or weakened at binding stitches.
About this Bible:
This Bible was missing the general title but including four other preliminaries: (1) "To the Christian Reader" (2) "Of the incomparable treasure of the holy Scriptures" (3) " How to profite in reading the holy Scriptures" (4) "The names and order of all the Bookes of the Olde and New Testament" AND was bound with two study helps: (1) "A briefe table of the interpretation of the proper names" (2) "A table of the principall things that are contained in the Bible" Colophon: “Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1599” A Psalter with musical staffs was also included.
Provenance: Various family inscriptions appear in ink on blank pages between Old Testament and the title page of the New Testament. Some quite early and in a 17th-Century hand recording 2 Baptisms in 1641 and 1642 that is difficult to read. London and Sarah, daughter of John ---? Born 1642 are easier to read. Another full page of family inscriptions (dated 1677-1738) followed by a very neatly inked family genealogy page of the Joseph Dewsnap Family (1776-1820) and likely their family Bible, on blank verso of New Testament title page. An inscription at the end of Job by Joseph Dewsnap 1819: Post tenebras, spero lucem, nullus, reprehensor, formidandus est, amatori veritatis. (After the darkness, I hope for light, there is none, fear is to blame, lover of truth. Compare Job 17:12 They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.) Disbound 2007.
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