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1657 Walton Polyglot, Item # PO1657

The Magnificent 1657 Walton Polyglot

[Polyglot Bible.] Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum; versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanae, Graecae LXXII Interp., Chaldaicae, Syriacae; Arabicae; Aethiopicae, Persicae, Vulg. Lat., quicquid comparari poterat; cum textuum, et versionum orientalium translationibus Latinis… cum apparatu, appendicibus, tabulis, variis lectionibus, annotationibus, indicibus, etc… Edidit Brianus Waltonus, STD… London: Thomas Roycroft, [1655-]1657.

Six large folio volumes. Complete. Volume I with engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved title-page in addition to printed title-page (in black and red). An absolute masterpiece of multi-lingual typography.

Quite fresh and clean internally, but for a little light dampstaining and other light soiling. Nice comfortable margins.

Fourth and finest of the great Polyglot Bibles, known as the London or the Walton Polyglot. “The most accurate and best equipped of the great Polyglots” (Darlow and Moule p. 23). First to include Ethiopic and Persian. Edited by Dr. Brian Walton, consecrated Bishop of Chester in 1660 (d. 1661). The sheets were likely printed between 1653 and 1658. Book was probably first published in 1658; though some sets of sheets were not bound up and issued until after the Restoration.

This copy with the preferred and earlier “republican” Preface (as opposed to the “loyal” preface: post-Restoration).

This set is uniformly bound in modern full speckled calf by Starr Bookworks of Arizona, spines tooled in blind in compartments, red morocco lettering pieces.

Included are the two volumes of the Castell lexicon which are sometimes combined with the Walton Polyglot though printed and published separately and later:

Lexicon Heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Samaritanum, Chaldaicum, Aethiopicum, Syriacum, Arabicum, et Persicum, Separatim . … Cui accessit Brevis, & Harmonica (quantum fieri potuit) Grammaticae, … Authore Edmundo Castello, STD … Londini: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft [1669].