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BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763.
Large 2o (488 x 318 mm). List of subscribers. (Some occasional spotting, some pale marginal dampstaining, heaviest at end.) Contemporary blue morocco gilt, spine in nine compartments with eight raised bands, compartments with repeated gilt panel, edges gilt, comb-marbled endleaves (some light wear). Provenance: John Charrington (bookplate) -- Stephen Gaselee (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from William H. Robinson, 18 February 1942) -- donated to SMS 1942.
THE FAMOUS BASKERVILLE BIBLE PRINTED IN 1,250 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 Founderies, p.279). Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146.
Large 2o (488 x 318 mm). List of subscribers. (Some occasional spotting, some pale marginal dampstaining, heaviest at end.) Contemporary blue morocco gilt, spine in nine compartments with eight raised bands, compartments with repeated gilt panel, edges gilt, comb-marbled endleaves (some light wear). Provenance: John Charrington (bookplate) -- Stephen Gaselee (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from William H. Robinson, 18 February 1942) -- donated to SMS 1942.
THE FAMOUS BASKERVILLE BIBLE PRINTED IN 1,250 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 Founderies, p.279). Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146.