Title: A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date: 1937 Description: Essays by John Livingston Lowes & Louis I. Newman. (Folio) 39.5x27.5 cm. (15½x10½") cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, plain brown jacket. One of 35 special copies containing specially ornamental original leaves from a total edition of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Rare special copy, containing 2 original leaves, featuring a total of 5 illustrated initials and an ornamental headpiece. The book printed in red and black with hand-illuminated initials. The leaves "are from an incomplete copy of the rare first edition of the King James Version, the famous "He" Bible of 1611. Set in double columns and printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...". GB 275 Lot Amendments Condition: Toning to jacket with small pieces of tape and head and heel of jacket spine; light wear to extremities; light toning to endpapers, a bit of light foxing; volume very good or better. Item number: 283869
Title: A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date: 1937 Description: Essays by John Livingston Lowes & Louis I. Newman. (Folio) 39.5x27.5 cm. (15½x10½") cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, plain brown jacket. One of 35 special copies containing specially ornamental original leaves from a total edition of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Rare special copy, containing 2 original leaves, featuring a total of 5 illustrated initials and an ornamental headpiece. The book printed in red and black with hand-illuminated initials. The leaves "are from an incomplete copy of the rare first edition of the King James Version, the famous "He" Bible of 1611. Set in double columns and printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...". GB 275 Lot Amendments Condition: Toning to jacket with small pieces of tape and head and heel of jacket spine; light wear to extremities; light toning to endpapers, a bit of light foxing; volume very good or better. Item number: 283869
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen