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10601/A
As a concession to Puritan tastes, the first edition of the King James Bible has no illustrations aside from its title page, a second title page for the New Testament, a woodcut of Adam and Eve at the beginning of the genealogical tables, and a map…
00044/A
Quarto version of the King James New Testament with "sombre" binding, meaning bindings that dispense with the ostentatious use of gold, usually as an expression of mourning.
00046/A
Smaller version of the King James Bible, intended for use in home and for visiting church. This copy contains inscriptions showing that it was in use by the family for at least 138 years.
00038
Second issue of the first edition of the King James Bible, sometimes called the "she" Bible because of the reading of Ruth III, 15: "she went into the citie."
00037
King James I appointed a committee to create an authoritative English Bible to replace the "Geneva" and "Bishops'" Bibles. Illustrations and ornamental letters are included throughout.
00044
This "sombre" binding of about 1680 encloses two much earlier books, the first quarto edition of the King James Bible (1612) and aBook of Psalmsof 1620. The books were trimmed significantly for this binding, and the edges of their leaves were stained…
06103
The first English edition of "the propritees of thynges" features a lengthy rhymed postscript that identifies William Caxton as the first printer of this title in Latin at Cologne. This edition is illustrated with woodcuts introducing each of the…
Prothro B-65
The King James Version of the Bible was protected and only allowed to be printed by the king's printer or the official printers of Cambridge and Oxford. Baskerville became the printer at Cambridge in 1758. Includes tables of measurements and guides…
00095
The King James Version of the Bible was protected and only allowed to be printed by the king's printer or the official printers of Cambridge and Oxford. Baskerville became the printer at Cambridge in 1758. Includes tables of measurements and guides…
Prothro B-69
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
AFJ8524
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
BRA2048
This copy of the devotional text, The Saints' Everlasting Rest was owned by Edward Inghram and Ezekiel Cooper.
Leutz example
Bound using Jan Sobota's two-board binding technique. Terracotta goatskin binding with raised black and brown goatskin onlays to resemble a zebra, title stamped in gold, leather headbands, brown goatskin doublures, top edge colored with acrylics and…
Minter example
Full leather binding of gray goatskin sewn on four raised bands. Raised onlays of maroon leather. Top edge graphite.
Reid-Cunningham example
Sections sewn on meeting guards sewn all along onto three raised linen cords. Front bead silk headbands. Bound in quarter orange goatskin, boards decorated outside and inside with wood veneers, titled and tooled in metallic foil, signed and dated…
AFG9277
Copy 16 of 50. Artist's book depicting the Revelation.
Engraving
Engraving of Bishop Asbury published by Benjamin Tanner based on an oil painting done by John Paradise.
Bennett
Full leather binding with hand-sewn silk headbands. Included will be various black-to-brown-to-white goatskin onlay links. Onlay titling will be rendered in the style of Twain's writing. An inlaid vellum sheet of writing paper depicts Twain's writing…
Cooksey example
Full terracotta goatskin with leather hinges, hand-sewn French endbands complement colors of endpapers. Blind-tooled smoke coming out of the side of the book, mirroring the illustrations in the book showing smoke elements.
Hoffman example
Sewn boards binding, French link stitch on tapes. Covered with black cloth on spine and purple tweed cloth on the boards. Marbled endpapers. Gold stamped title.
Fox example
The poetry, illustrations, and the countryside Wendell Berry describes inspired this design. Soft, rolling hills are shown using the bas-relief areas and the crops are represented by the rough green leather onlays and gold tooled lines with a dusting…
Fox example
Full dark green and alum-tawed goatskin dyed with gold and palladium leaf and colored foil tooling. The center page is endpapers laminated together with foil tooling. Head colored and gilded center pleat in the binding and the center page. Sewn with…
AFG2323
The images in this English publication still show strong influences from Holbein in style and layout with some artistic differences.
Bound in 18th century sheepskin.
BRB0776
Tenth London edition of the hieroglyphic Bible with woodcut engravings.
BRA0854
Bewick was one of the most skilled and popular English illustrators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Quadrupeds, a text compiled by the naturalist Ralph Beilby, is an early example of Bewick's artistry with the engraved…
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