Annotations Upon the Holy Bible. Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted, and Various Readings Annex'd, Together with the Parallel Scriptures. The Most Difficult Terms in Each Verse Explained. Seeming Contradictions Reconciled. Questions and Doubts Resolved. And the Whole Text Opened. By the Late Revered and Learned Divine Mr. Matthew Poole. The Fourth Edition. Corrected and Amended. With Large Contents to Each Chapter. London: Printed for Thomas Parkburft, Jonathan Robinson, Brabazon Aylmer, John Lawrence, John Taylor, and Thomas Cockerill, 1700, folios.
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A lovely set of the very rare Matthew Poole edition of the King James Bible, a now very rare set and difficult to come by.
This 2 volume vellum bound set contains the full protestant Bible alongside Matthew Poole's famous commentary. Volume one contains Genesis to Isaiah 66 (lacks final leaf), and volume two contains Jeremiah through to the end of Revelation. A stunning antique Bible in huge folio format spread across two volumes.
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Size: 267 x 398 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., 4pp. (preface), B1-6K1]; [t.p., 4pp. (table), A1-6P3]
Near contemporary full vellum interestingly laid over the probably original full calf, thus could technically be considered in their original bindings. Bindings rubbed with loss in places, but remaining attractive on the shelf. Without tooled labels. Joints and hinges cracked but with all boards attached to varying degrees of security, but generally fragile. Generally clean throughout the text block, though with some of the preliminary and final leaves ragged at edges as typical, but the text block is generally without loss of sense throughout. Title page of the second volume torn with loss as pictured. A small number of leaves are detached but present, including the first leaf of Obadiah. Lacking one leaf at the end of volume one (6K2) as according to the WorldCat reference (last leaf of Isaiah), else collates as complete.
[OCLC 4589038, 43155976; ESTC T214794; Wing P2824A; MMSID 9930883203804341].
