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BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, 1763.
Large 2 485 x 320 mm). List of subscribers in third state, ending with 'Charles York'. Contemporary reversed calf (prize binding for James Backhouse Darlington, 1772), covers and backstrip blindtooled, metal clasps (rubbed, corners, head and foot of spine restored). Provenance: James Backhouse Darlington (leather bookplate on front-cover and manuscript note on front-fly leaf).
THE FAMOUS BASKERVILLE BIBLE PRINTED IN 1250 COPIES ONLY. This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, p. 279). Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146.
Large 2 485 x 320 mm). List of subscribers in third state, ending with 'Charles York'. Contemporary reversed calf (prize binding for James Backhouse Darlington, 1772), covers and backstrip blindtooled, metal clasps (rubbed, corners, head and foot of spine restored). Provenance: James Backhouse Darlington (leather bookplate on front-cover and manuscript note on front-fly leaf).
THE FAMOUS BASKERVILLE BIBLE PRINTED IN 1250 COPIES ONLY. This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, p. 279). Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146.
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Please note that the Baskerville Bible is rebacked, with the old spine laid down.