architectural binding

A handsome, seventeenth-century folio King James Bible bound at the turn of the nineteenth-century in the nascent 'architectural' style after King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

Folio (42 x 27.5 cm); engraved title trimmed and laid onto paper, woodcut initials, bound without half-title, slightly toned with occasional light spotting; early nineteenth-century blue straight-grained morocco architectural binding, covers stamped in gilt with a view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge within gilt-roll borders, gilt spine in 5 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed with some slight discolouration, very good.

ESTC R38709; Herbert 717.