![[DOVES PRESS] -- The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-1905. 5 volumes, 4° (337 x 236 mm). Initials printed in red. (A few leaves lightly spotted, mainly in vol. I & II, 2 light stains in lower margin of G1 in vol. V.) Original limp vellum by Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: 3 short manuscript annotations in pencil (vol. II, p.396; vol.V, pp. 3 & 205).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10900_0195_000(doves_press_--_the_english_bible_containing_the_old_testament_the_new060957).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 Special Command of His Majesty King James the First. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-1905. 5 volumes, 4° (337 x 236 mm). Initials printed in red. (A few leaves lightly spotted, mainly in vol. I & II, 2 light stains in lower margin of G1 in vol. V.) Original limp vellum by Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: 3 short manuscript annotations in pencil (vol. II, p.396; vol.V, pp. 3 & 205).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets of the magnum opus of the Doves Press, printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets of the magnum opus of the Doves Press, printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker.
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