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[DOVES PRESS]. The English Bible containing the Old Testament & the New Testament. Edited by F. H. Scrivener, Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-05. 5 vols., 4o, printed in red and black, wood-engraved initials by Edward Johnston (some minor marginal foxing and foxing to first and last leaves of first two vols.). Original limp vellum by The Doves Bindery, spines lettered in gilt (some darkening to spines and covers); slipcases. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper of an edition of 502. Tomkinson, p. 54, no. 6; Franklin, Private Presses, pp. 118-19 ("the magnum opus of the Doves Press... nothing is so stark and pure, such unbending art as the Doves Bible... It remains, as all the other Doves books, formal and formidable. There is not one illustration, no experiment with woodcut or border, from the start of the [text] to its close..."). (5)

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[DOVES PRESS]. The English Bible containing the Old Testament & the New Testament. Edited by F. H. Scrivener, Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-05. 5 vols., 4o, printed in red and black, wood-engraved initials by Edward Johnston (some minor marginal foxing and foxing to first and last leaves of first two vols.). Original limp vellum by The Doves Bindery, spines lettered in gilt (some darkening to spines and covers); slipcases. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper of an edition of 502. Tomkinson, p. 54, no. 6; Franklin, Private Presses, pp. 118-19 ("the magnum opus of the Doves Press... nothing is so stark and pure, such unbending art as the Doves Bible... It remains, as all the other Doves books, formal and formidable. There is not one illustration, no experiment with woodcut or border, from the start of the [text] to its close..."). (5)