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: [King James Bible] 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 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Prospectus laid in. With an original leaf from The Apocrypha, Chapters V-VI with 2 5-line woodcut initials. 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...". GB 275. Lot Amendments Condition: Fore edges of boards rubbed, corners lightly bumped; else near fine. Item number: 171210
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: [King James Bible] 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 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Prospectus laid in. With an original leaf from The Apocrypha, Chapters V-VI with 2 5-line woodcut initials. 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...". GB 275. Lot Amendments Condition: Fore edges of boards rubbed, corners lightly bumped; else near fine. Item number: 171210
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