The Psalter or Psalms of David from the Bible of Archbishop Cranmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568, translator.

Ashbee, Janet E. (Janet Elizabeth), editor.

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, designer, type designer.

Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.

Power, Annie, binder.

Arnold, Edward, 1857-1942, publisher.

Samuel Buckley & Co., publisher.

Essex House Press, printer.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Psalms. English. Coverdale. 1902.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Fine books--England--Specimens.

Fine books.

England.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Unopened edges (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Endeavour.

Silk ties (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Turner, Sydney (bookplate) (Furness copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 30 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Reprinted ... at the Essex House Press, Mile End, E., in the year MDCCCCII [1902]

Place of Publication:

[London] : Published in England by Edward Arnold, 37, Bedford Street, Strand ; [New York] : and in America by Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William St., New York, [1902]

Notes:

Explicit on page 87 reads: Here ends the Psalter; edited from the Cranmer Bible of MDXL by Janet E. Ashbee, and reprinted in honor of David the great singer, at the Essex House Press, Mile End, E. in the year MDCCCCII, under the care of C.R. Ashbee, who has also designed and drawn the woodcuts.

The "Cranmer Bible" is the second edition of the Great Bible, translated by Miles Coverdale with a preface by Thomas Cranmer. See British and Foreign Bible Society, Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture, volume 1, pages 21-22.

"250 paper copies; 10 on vellum. No. [blank]"--Page [80].

Woodcuts: red title vignette and printer's device; black historiated initials and tail-pieces.

"Printed in the 'Endeavour' type, red and black, with woodcut bloomers to each psalm drawn by C.R. Ashbee, and cut by W. Hooper."--Ashbee.

Binding: full limp green vellum; title stamped in gold on spine; 2 green silk fore-edge ties; untrimmed fore- and tail edges (deckled). "A few copies bound by Miss Power."--Ashbee.

Local Notes:

Furness copy has bookplate of Sydney Turner.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 140 (the copy slip supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 250 paper copies. See page [88].

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: most leaves unopened at head edge.

Cited in:

Ashbee, C.R. A bibliography of the Essex House Press, page 13

OCLC:

288451