The Holy Bible [KJV].
?Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1634 (no title-page vide infra). Folio, full calf; head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials; incomplete, signatures begin at B2 (lacking A1-4 and B1 according to Herbert 353), missing G4, Z3, 2H3, 2O5, 2P4, 3C4, 3D6, 3H6, 3K3+4, 3T5, 4C2, 4N2, 5M1, 5T5, 6D1-6 (end according to Herbert). Black letter.
The King James Version of the Bible is seen as one of the most important and influential texts in the English language. It was published at first to challenge the multiplicity of competing editions, not least the Calvinist Geneva Bible (See Lots 1-5) and the Catholic Douai-Rheims Bible. The committee selected what they saw as the best of all of the previous translations to achieve the best possible version of the Bible they could. It may not have originated as many idioms as popular thought would hold, but it did popularise them beyond all previous conception.
Main title missing but the "Almanacke for xxxix. yeeres." opens at 1632, Barker still held the licence to print the Bible at this point (before the Star Chamber deprived him for printing the "Wicked" Bible). Herbert lists no distinct folio edition for 1632, however there is one for 1634 (487) agreeing with this one in locations of "These to bee observed..." and "To finde Easter for euer" and with version of Heb. xii. I. Signature details agree with 1617 folio (353). (See Lot 4 for Robert Barker) Herbert 487.