Lot 85
85
BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 315mm). List of subscribers in third state. (Ownership inscription deleted from head of title, some marginal spotting and occasional dust-soiling.) Contemporary black pigskin, spine gilt in compartments, wide gilt and blind-stamped border round sides composed, inter alia, of mitres, turrets, tulips and fleurons (rubbed and scuffed).
BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 315mm). List of subscribers in third state. (Ownership inscription deleted from head of title, some marginal spotting and occasional dust-soiling.) Contemporary black pigskin, spine gilt in compartments, wide gilt and blind-stamped border round sides composed, inter alia, of mitres, turrets, tulips and fleurons (rubbed and scuffed).

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BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 315mm). List of subscribers in third state. (Ownership inscription deleted from head of title, some marginal spotting and occasional dust-soiling.) Contemporary black pigskin, spine gilt in compartments, wide gilt and blind-stamped border round sides composed, inter alia, of mitres, turrets, tulips and fleurons (rubbed and scuffed).

This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, p. 279). Herbert 1146; Gaskell 26.

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