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WORMALD, Francis (intro.)
The Book of Psalms
from the Version of Miles Coverdale as published in the "Great Bible" of 1539. with an Introduction by Francis Wormald of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, and Facsimile Reproductions of Eight Illuminated Folios from the Fourteenth Century Manuscript known as Queen Mary's Psalter
1930. first edition (limited to 875 numbered copies). no place (Westminster): The Haymarket Press. 1 volume. xvi, 156 pages, (2). 8 pages coloured facsimiles. 4to.
bound in boards with dust jacket foxed and with tears. some internal foxing.

F・ウォーモールド序
『メアリー女王旧蔵詩篇・細密装飾画複製』

英国書誌学においても英文学史においても重要な、1539年刊行の所謂『カヴァーデイル聖書』の詩篇本文を、大英博物館所蔵写本『メアリー女王の詩篇』の細密画8枚で装飾した美麗本。