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6 volumes, folio (450 x 277 mm).  Engraved frontispiece portrait of Walton, pictorial additional title in Volume 1, double-page map of the Holy Land, double-page plan of Jerusalem, 3 double-page plates (2 showing plans and elevations of the Temple, one depicting ritual artifacts), and single-page plan of the Temple, all by Wenceslaus Hollar; errata slip mounted and tipped in to Vol. I at p.48. (A few mostly marginal tears, dampstaining to gutter margin in Vol. IV, some minor browning or soiling.) Full red crushed morocco richly gilt (some scuffing or rubbing). Provenance: Lynd (armorial bookplate)

 

The fourth, last, and most accurate of the large-scale Polyglots of the 16th and 17th centuries, the London Polyglot was a tour-de-force of typography and layout employing Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Samaritan, and Ethiopic fonts to print versions in 8 languages in addition to the Vulgate. While being less elegant than its predecessors, is the most accurate and with the addition of Persian and Ethiopic to the usual Samaritan, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Chaldaean and Latin. The editor was Brian Walton, made Bishop of Chester by Charles II in 1660, who called upon for assistance the considerable talents of, inter alios, James Ussher, Robert Sanderson, Henry Hammond, Edward Pococke, John Greaves and Edmund Castell. Republican issue with Walton's thanks to Cromwell for having waived customs duties on the imported paper. Wing B2797; Darlow and Moule 1446; ESTC R36567

 

[Uniformly bound with:]  CASTELL, Edmund. Lexicon Heptaglotton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1669. 2 volumes, folio. Uniformly bound with above. According to Darlow & Moule, the Lexicon Heptaglotton  is “often bound uniformly with, and as a supplement to, this Polyglot Bible… they really form an essential part of the work.” ESTC R218940.