The Holy Bible, containing the bookes of the Old & New Testament.
John Ogilby (1600-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1660
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217141
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 680, [2], 681-1103, [1], 258, [2]; [2], 338 p., [102] leaves of plates ; fol. First part bound with: Book of common prayer (1660), with which it was issued. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case N. Shelf 7. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Manuscript on recto of first double plate recording Legh family births and christenings 1660-1685. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; double gilt fillet border, with gilt tooled centr panel; rebacked; six raised bands; gilt lettered and numbered spine labels: Holy Bible | Part I-II.
Makers and roles
John Ogilby (1600-1676)