![DOVES PRESS. The English Bible containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by the special command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F. H. Scrivener ... for the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: The Doves Press [printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker], 1903-05.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01587_0424_000(112600).jpg?w=1)
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DOVES PRESS. The English Bible containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by the special command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F. H. Scrivener ... for the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: The Doves Press [printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker], 1903-05.
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DOVES PRESS. The English Bible containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by the special command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F. H. Scrivener ... for the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: The Doves Press [printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker], 1903-05.
5 volumes, large 4o. Printed in black and red, woodcut intitials by Edward Johnston. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, flat spines gilt-lettered, uncut (some occasional light soiling to edges); 2 quarter morocco slipcases housing vols. I-II and vols. III-V.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper. "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 press to the close. This absolute refusal to enjoy or experiment suggests a peculiar tension" (Franklin, Private Presses, p. 118-119). Tomkinson, Bibliography of Modern Presses [Doves] 6. (5)
5 volumes, large 4
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper. "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 press to the close. This absolute refusal to enjoy or experiment suggests a peculiar tension" (Franklin, Private Presses, p. 118-119). Tomkinson, Bibliography of Modern Presses [Doves] 6. (5)