Sefer tehilim = The book of Psalmes with the new English translation, published by John Leusden, professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Utrecht
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Smith, and are to be sold by him at his shop in the sign of the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church-Yard
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Other titles: Book of Psalmes with the new English translation
Work titles: Bible Psalms English & Hebrew Leusden 1688
Notes: The first two words of the title are transliterated from the Hebrew.

Parallel English and Hebrew texts.

Signatures: *⁴ A-T¹² V⁶ X⁸.

Text reads from back to front.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Woodcut title vignette; woodcut head-pieces, initials.

ESTC R210524

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B2744

2 sets of ms. notes, mostly at the beginning of the text, one set in ink, the other in pencil; ownership inscription: No 33. George McKay James Square Edinburgh (possibly the Presbyterian missionary George Leslie McKay, 1844-1901).

Bookplate of Harvard College Library: From Hon. J. R. Lowell of Cambridge, 3 May 1888. [James Russell Lowell?]

Imperfect: Title page lacking, imprint unclear (likely either London or Utrecht bookseller/imprint) but because this copy is of American provenance, perhaps more likely to be of London.

Bound in mid-18th-cent. red sheep, with marbled endpapers; spine ruled in gilt.

Contemporary leather, rebacked.