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Lot Description

[BIBLE, in English].

The New Testament, translated from the Latin, in the Year 1380, by John Wiclif, D.D. . . . To which are prefixed, Memoirs of . . . Dr. Wiclif; and an Historical Account of the Saxon and English Versions of the Scriptures, previous to the Opening of the Fifteenth Century, by the Rev. Henry Hervey Baber, B.A. London: Richard Edwards for T. Hamilton et al., 1810.

4to (315 x 245 mm). With engraved frontispiece portrait of Wycliffe. (Small tear affecting letters on title-page, a few preliminary leaves reinforced in gutter with cloth tape.) Later cloth (upper cover detaching, some overall wear). Provenance: Herbert Wilson (signature dated 1851); E. A. Edghill (signature dated 1901); John W. Lea (signature dated 1921).

Second printed edition of Wycliffe’s New Testament, which was first published in an edition of 160 copies in 1731. Herbert 1537.

Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.

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