A well-traveled early King James imprint originally belonging to Philip Blisse [Bliss; d.1629] of Market Harborough. From thence to Thomas Wright [1610-1670] who was born in England. He apparently met and married Boston-born Mary Cranbroke [1609-1641] in England in 1629. Their first child was born in Manchester, England [1630], then Kelvedon, England [1632], then Hartford, Connecticut [1633], then two more children in England [1634, and 1635] and a final child back in American [1639] before her death in 1641. The family seems to have hten settled once for all in the Wethesfield area of Connecticut, with Thomas and nearly all their children living and dying in the region.
The Bible obtained by Thomas either directly after Bliss's death in 1629 and gifted to Mary in 1634, or obtained while back in England in 1634 as a gift, which seems more likely given the MSs inscriptions at the rear.
The Holy Bible, etc. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1627. [Herbert #407].
A defective copy, beginning with the Genealogies title page followed by 25 pages of the genealogy of Christ. The text then moves to the opening of Genesis 1 with an attractive woodcut at the head of the Garden of Eden, shafted at foredge. chapters 4 - 10 are supplied from a late 17th or early 18th century text and is thereafter complete throughout the remainder of the OT. No General or Old Testament title page present. The Apocrypha begins, as called for, with Esdras and retains an attractive period woodcut. Apocrypha lacks all after II. Maccabees 10. New Testament lacks all before Mark 2 but is complete through Revelation 22, which supplies the last leaf of the volume. A few leaves have foredge losses which impact text. Bound in a cobbled "franken-binding" with a likely 18th century board overbound to the binding.
