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BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta [--Appendix]. Edited by Brian Walton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657 [vol. II colophon: 1655, vol. III colophon: 1656]. 6 vols., folio, 18th-century reversed calf, rebacked and corners repaired, leather repairs to covers of vol. I and one cover of vol. II, new endpapers, vol. I occasionally dampstained throughout, 2 final leaves of vol. I with upper outer blank corners lost, touching a numeral, plate of religious artifacts slightly torn. THE WALTON POLYGLOT. EACH VOLUME RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Persian and Arabic, printed in a variety of exotic types (some with paraphrases and interpretations in Latin), vol. I containing engraved portrait of Walton by P. Lombert, elaborate engraved general title and 6 engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar, early issue without the dedication to Charles II (which appears in copies issued after the Restoration in 1660) and different setting of
BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta [--Appendix]. Edited by Brian Walton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657 [vol. II colophon: 1655, vol. III colophon: 1656]. 6 vols., folio, 18th-century reversed calf, rebacked and corners repaired, leather repairs to covers of vol. I and one cover of vol. II, new endpapers, vol. I occasionally dampstained throughout, 2 final leaves of vol. I with upper outer blank corners lost, touching a numeral, plate of religious artifacts slightly torn. THE WALTON POLYGLOT. EACH VOLUME RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Persian and Arabic, printed in a variety of exotic types (some with paraphrases and interpretations in Latin), vol. I containing engraved portrait of Walton by P. Lombert, elaborate engraved general title and 6 engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar, early issue without the dedication to Charles II (which appears in copies issued after the Restoration in 1660) and different setting of the Preface acknowledging Cromwell's assistance in importing the paper . Darlow & Moule 1445 ("fourth and latest of the great Polyglots...the most accurate and best equipped"); In Remembrance of Creation 182; Wing B-2797. (6)

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BIBLE, Polyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta [--Appendix]. Edited by Brian Walton. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657 [vol. II colophon: 1655, vol. III colophon: 1656]. 6 vols., folio, 18th-century reversed calf, rebacked and corners repaired, leather repairs to covers of vol. I and one cover of vol. II, new endpapers, vol. I occasionally dampstained throughout, 2 final leaves of vol. I with upper outer blank corners lost, touching a numeral, plate of religious artifacts slightly torn. THE WALTON POLYGLOT. EACH VOLUME RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Persian and Arabic, printed in a variety of exotic types (some with paraphrases and interpretations in Latin), vol. I containing engraved portrait of Walton by P. Lombert, elaborate engraved general title and 6 engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar, early issue without the dedication to Charles II (which appears in copies issued after the Restoration in 1660) and different setting of the Preface acknowledging Cromwell's assistance in importing the paper . Darlow & Moule 1445 ("fourth and latest of the great Polyglots...the most accurate and best equipped"); In Remembrance of Creation 182; Wing B-2797. (6)
Provenance
Will. Morley, contemporary signatures; The Earls of Derby, Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, eighteenth-century shelf-marks and modern bookplates.

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