[Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments with singing Psalms in shorthand / written by William Addy ; the Bible engraved by John Sturt].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Addy, William, active 1685.

Lawrence, John, active 1681-1711, bookseller.

Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver.

Standardized Title:

Bible. English. Authorized. 1611. Shorthand.

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Block, Gordon A. (donor) (RBC copy)

Block, Reba Fleisher (honoree) (RBC copy)

Block Bible Collection

Physical Description:

[4], 278, [2], 396, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 12 cm (16mo)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Sold by I. Lawrence at [the] Angel in the Poultry, [1687]

Notes:

Engraved throughout, with title and text in shorthand. Transcription of title supplied from ESTC.

Bookseller's name from colophon on leaf pi2r; imprint place and date supplied from ESTC.

Signatures: pi⁴(-pi1?) a-n⁴ [o]-[2l]⁴ [2m]⁴(-[2m]4) [2n]-[2y]⁴[+]

Leaf [2m]3 is blank. "The last leaf is blank."--ESTC.

Plates: frontispiece portrait titled "Gulielmus Addy" (signed: I. Sturt sculp.), general title leaf, divisional title leaf of New Testament (illustration of the Four Evangelists), and divisional title leaf of Metrical Psalms (illustration of King David with harp).

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: all after p. 358 (Metrical Psalms) wanting; divisional title leaf of Metrical Psalms (illustration of King David with harp) bound in after p. 174.

RBC copy has ms. inscription ("R.P. 371") in pencil on front free endpaper; ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("AS" in a square) in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper; ms. notes in shorthand in pencil on blank leaf [mm]3r.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother, Reba Fleisher Block.

RBC copy has small armorial bookplate of an unidentified former owner (from the Prideaux family, baronets of Netherton?) affixed to front pastedown. Arms: Argent, a chevron sable, in chief a label of three points gules. Crest: On a cap of dignity, a Saracen's head, couped at the shoulders, looking sideways, proper.

RBC copy: leaves frame-ruled in red ink.

RBC copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy (with ms. note in pencil: "AS 11/44 Dawson") laid in.

RBC copy bound in full diced calf; boards tooled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; spine tooled in gold; title ("HOLY BIBLE" and "SHORT HAND" in separate panels) stamped in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; all edges dark; 4 blue silk markers.

RBC copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with frequent damage to or loss of signature marks and page numbers.

Cited in:

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society 638

ESTC R172955

Wing (2nd ed.) B2802B