The Holy Bible, with the Apocrypha, 5 volumes (Nonesuch Press Edition)

A$7,000 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

[HOLY BIBLE] (illus. Stephen Gooden; typography arranged by Francis Meynell). The Holy Bible, Reprinted According to the Authorised Version 1611: With the Apocrypha. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924-1927. 5 vols. Quarto. All five volumes uniformly bound in full vellum, gilt-titled to spine. Comprising: The Apocrypha (1924); Genesis to Ruth (1925); Samuel to Psalms (1925); Proverbs to Malachi (1926); The New Testament (1927). Each volume with an engraved pictorial title page, headpiece, and tailpiece, all designed and engraved on copper by Stephen Gooden. Printed by Frederick Hall and John Johnson, printers to the University, at the Oxford University Press. Deluxe limited edition. One of 75 sets printed on Arnold unbleached rag paper for sale in England and America (the Bible proper limited to 75 of this issue from a total edition of 1,075; the Apocrypha, originally an independent 1924 publication, limited to 75 of this issue from a total edition of 1,325). This set of the four Bible volumes printed for S. T. Thomas; the accompanying Apocrypha volume numbered XIV in its own separate limitation sequence, consistent with the Apocrypha's distinct original publication and subsequent pairing with later-issued Bible volumes to form complete sets. Bookplates of Edward E. Whitmont and Milton Whitmont to the front of all five volumes. Containing the earlier Apocrypha volume, this set is the complete 75-copy Arnold rag paper issue, bound uniformly in vellum, and considerably scarcer tha

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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