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Collection: The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts
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10329
One of 500 copies. Decorated initials.
10394
Printed by Cobden-Sanderson in a new, proprietary type, this Bible highlights their focus on art through layout and letterform.
AFR8185
Copy 27 out of 200 printed. Text is Robert Alter's English translation with facing text from Biblio Hebraica Stuttgartensis (1967).
Prothro B-280
This printing of Genesis conveys the "eternalness of the text" through the font and paper type. There are simple wood engravings throughout.
30016
Copy 33 of 100 printed. Genesis I-III with watercolor artwork.
12086 Folio
Copy 1 of 250 printed on Arches paper. Twenty-four original lithographs by Marc Chagall alongside exerpts from the story of Exodus.
12095 Folio
Copy 244 of 295. Chagall's illustrated Bible draws inspiration from Chagall's travels to Israel and his childhood memories of the Bible.
AEP0206 Oversize
Copy 170 of 210. Text of Job from the Authorized version of 1611 as arranged by the Temple Bible. Frontispiece is a woodblock print.
10655
Copy 66 of 300. In this edition, Job is laid out as prose although the edition states that this book is poetry.
12145
Copy 97 of 200. Psalms 1, 23, 121, 128, and 150 are illustrated with silkscreen.
27865
Copy 250 of 500. Illustrated version of Psalm 24 on sheets of colored paper trimmed to varying widths.
10597
Texts of the psalms in Arthur Golding's (1536–1606) English translation of John Calvin's (1509–1564) Latin from Hebrew. The art in this work is through the layout and fonts .
10600
Modernized spelling of text selected from the King James 1611 translation.
10649
Copy 36 of 75. Translation of Psalms by the Benedictine monks of Saint-Lambert-des-Bois.
12072
Copy 25 of 285. Illustrations were printed from original wood blocks engraved by Stefan Martin. David Soshensky did a full-page calligraphy title.
Prothro B-199
Copy J of the 26 (A-Z) on Arches Grand Vellin, out of a total of 240. Handwritten and illustrated by Ben Shahn, with silkscreen for the gold letterings on the title page.
Prothro B-180
Copy 327 of the 1499 "Luxus" edition. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) created one hundred fine paintings for this five-volume edition of the Bible which employed the Latin text from the Vulgate of Saint Jerome. The original image of King David is in Volume…
10695
Copy 75 of 110 and has an original drawing bound into the front. The production of this book took several years to complete due to the detail and complexity of the prints.
Prothro B-453
Copy 71 of 150. This 1968 edition of The Song of Solomon comprises thirty original silkscreen prints.
10617
Copy 10 of 50, bound in green goatskin. Allix's illustrations are etchings and aquatints and reflect her idea that books represent a medium for creative expression.
29630 Oversize
Copy 145 of 250. Illustrations were printed using offset lithography in four colors on alumnium-lined paper.
10268
One of 40 printed copies. This printing of the Song of Songs features decorative typeface along with illumination.
10951
Copy 367 of 750. Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) arranged the text of Song of Songs as a playscript.
32351
Copy 11 of 40. Bernard Alan Solomon (1946-1995) wanted to produce an edition of the Song of Songs that could be understood from the images.
27439
Copy D of 10 vellum prints (A-J). This edition uses David Jones' (1895–1974) wood engravings.
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