Lot 86
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BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 320mm). List of subscribers in first state. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling.) Contemporary blue-black turkey, the spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt border on sides with repeated crown, thistle and floral ornaments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, sides scuffed, joints starting at the head).
BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 320mm). List of subscribers in first state. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling.) Contemporary blue-black turkey, the spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt border on sides with repeated crown, thistle and floral ornaments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, sides scuffed, joints starting at the head).

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BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. 2° (491 x 320mm). List of subscribers in first state. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling.) Contemporary blue-black turkey, the spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt border on sides with repeated crown, thistle and floral ornaments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, sides scuffed, joints starting at the head).

THE FAMOUS BASKERVILLE BIBLE, always regarded as 'Baskerville's magnum opus, and his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (Reed). Herbert 1146; Gaskell 26; Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Founderies, p.279.

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