ENGLISH BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT & THE NEW

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Hammersmith, England, The Doves Press, 1903-1905, full limp vellum, uncut fore and tail edges, gilt on spines, individual later cloth slipcases with leather spine labels

One of 500 copies, Near fine

 

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One of 500 copies printed on handmade paper by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker (Tidcombe DP6; Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 90-92, Huntington Library, Great Books in Great Editions, 7, Ransom, Private Presses, p. 251, no. 6, Tomkinson, p. 54, no. 6, Hutner and Kelly, Century for the Century, 4). With the very common scattered foxing between "The Translators to the Reader" through page 13 of volume one, else in immaculate condition. The later black-cloth slipcases have an occasional bumped corner, else in fine condition.

"This edition of the Bible is considered the masterpiece of the Doves Press. . . The type is a particularly crisp and faithful version of Jenson's fifteenth-century roman. It was cut in only one size, which was used in all of the half-hundred issues of the Press. When the Press was discontinued in 1916, the type and matrices were destroyed by Cobden-Sanderson to prevent their misuse." (Huntington Library, Great Books in Great Editions).

The distinctive red initial letters, executed by hand by Edward Johnston, are described by Ransom (Private Presses, p. 56) as "a pattern for all time of complexity reduced to the minimum of simplicity." 

Bound by Cobden-Sanderson at his Doves Bindery, as noted on the rear vellum turn-in on each volume. 

 

Hammersmith, England: The Doves Press, 1903-1905; 5 volumes, five folio volumes (13.1875 x 9.1875 inches; 335 x 234 mm), full limp vellum, uncut fore and tail edges, gilt on spines, individual later cloth slipcases with leather spine labels; vol 1: (xii), (2), 394, (I); vol 2: (xii), (2), 518, (I); vol 3: (iv), (14), 390, (II); vol 4: (iv), (14), 300, (II); vol 5: (xii), (2), 307, (I) pages. Book # 63877

 

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