Power and glory : Jacobean England and the making of the King James Bible / Adam Nicolson
London : HarperCollins, 2003. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Pages very slightly tanned as with age. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #412392
Physical description; 280 pp., [16] pages pf plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm. Contents; 1. A poore man now arrived at the Land of Promise -- 2. The multitudes of people covered the beautie of the fields -- 3. He sate among graue, learned and reuerend men -- 4. Faire and softly goeth far -- 5. I am for the medium in all things -- 6. The danger never dreamt of, that is the danger -- 7. O lett me bosome thee, lett me preserve thee next to my heart -- 8. We have twice and thrice so much scope for oure earthlie peregrination -- 9. When we do luxuriate and grow riotous in the gallantnesse of this world -- 10. True Religion is in no way a gargalisme only -- 11. The grace of the fashion of it -- 12. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies? -- App. A. The Sixteenth-Century Bible -- App. B. The Six Companies of Translators -- App. C. Chronology. Subjects; James I, King of England 1566-1625. Bible. English. History. Influence. Versions. New Testament.
Price: €14.95