![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the Lost Treasures of Stowe House, fformerly belonging to the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Only known example of this type and style of decoration and illumination in a seventeenth century English work. An extraordinary illuminated copy of the first small folio edition of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible. LONDON: IMPRINTED BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1616. THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTIES SPECIALL COMMANDEMENT. ILLUMINATED BIBLE IN ENGLISH FIRST SMALL FOLIO EDITION OF THE AUTHORIZED VERSION. ![]()
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