Sternhold, Thomas. The whole booke of Psalmes

Folger bibliographic ID: 270863
ESTC number: S90750
STC number: 2588
Folger call number: STC 2588
Folger holdings ID: 357000
Accession Number: 267699

Bibliographic format

thirty-twomo

General notes

"Cum priuilegio Regis Regali." Signatures: A-2A⁸ Roman type, one column Includes a first-line index

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018.Form and Function: The Genius of the Book

Item information about Folger STC 2588

Ruled in red throughout. Armorial bookplate (motto: Maganamiter crucem sustine): Bibliotheque Grace Whitney Hoff. In a contemporary purple velvet binding heavily embroidered with gold and silver thread; tiny pearls and sequins (some missing); edges gilt. Early 20th-century printed bookseller's description mounted on fly-leaf "this fine specimen of English embroidered bookbinding was exhibited in the Manchester Exhibition as having been at one time the property of King Charles I."

Uniform title: Whole book of Psalms
Extended title: The whole booke of Psalmes / collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins, and others

author: Sternhold, Thomas, -1549
author: Hopkins, John, -1570
former owner: Hoff, G. Whitney (Grace Whitney), 1862-1938
associated name: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
publisher: Stationers' Company (London, England)