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. 15½10½ cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. One of 35 special copies from a total edition of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Prospectus laid in. With the original leaf being the opening leaf for the book of Zechariah (one of 35 copies with a leaf opening a book of the Bible). 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 & printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...". BCC 51; GB 275. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to boards; near fine. Item number: 202262
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. 15½10½ cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. One of 35 special copies from a total edition of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Prospectus laid in. With the original leaf being the opening leaf for the book of Zechariah (one of 35 copies with a leaf opening a book of the Bible). 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 & printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...". BCC 51; GB 275. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to boards; near fine. Item number: 202262
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