Description
1 KINGS 1:1-52 (title) + end of 2 Samuel. “Solomon is Made King” Great Byble. Printed in London by Grafton and Whitchurch, Nov. 1540. Third folio edition. Reference: Herbert 60. This leaf was part of an OT fragment in the famous Francis Fry Collection. 1 Picture-woodcut 3″ x 2.25″ (of only 50 picture woodcuts in this Bible). 1 Large woodcut initial. FINE condition. Full margins; reinforced repairs to tattered inner and outer edges and upper corner (see pics). 15.5″ x 10.75″. [Note: the iii Kings headline is an older designation for 1 Kings, since the two Samuel books were combined with the two Kings books to form i, ii, iii, and iiii Kings.]
