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The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New:

Creator: The Holy Bible / Biblical
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
[KING JAMES VERSION].

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The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New:
translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.

Stock Code 110964
Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, printers to the university, 1799

Current price$649.00
A sweet King James pocket bible from the turn of the nineteenth century, in a beautiful red morocco gilt binding, with two early female ownership inscriptions.

12mo (14 x 8 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpapers, old bookseller label to front pastedown, NT title-page; contemporary red morocco, double gilt-ruled, stars in corner-pieces, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt, corners and edges slightly rubbed, a few nicks to spine, but head and tail caps intact, and internally very clean, a handsome copy.

Cf.Herbert 1439; DM 980.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	18th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	110964
Incollect Reference #:	697216

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