DOVES PRESS. BIBLE. English. The English Bible. Hammersmith 1903-05. 5 volumes, large 4to, original limp vellum, flat spines gilt-lettered, uncut, some light soiling and wrinkling to covers,light dust-soiling to upper edges, slight foxing to a few gatherings in each volume. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper of an edition of 502, initial capitals in red designed by Edward Johnston. 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...")