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Collection: The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts
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11002
Copy 12 of 12 vellum copies, one of 500 total. Large historiated initals are used in this printing of the King James Version of the four Gospels.
10951
Copy 367 of 750. Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) arranged the text of Song of Songs as a playscript.
10016
Copy 247 of 450 on mould-made paper. Cresset Press commissioned fourteen artists for each of the books classified as apocryphal by King James Version.
Prothro B-474
One of 140 copies. Three illustrated stories from Jonah, Judith, and Ruth with one full-page drawing for each of the stories.
10655
Copy 66 of 300. In this edition, Job is laid out as prose although the edition states that this book is poetry.
36723
King James translation of Revelations with expressive lithograph illustrations.
28577
One of 500 copies printed for friends of George Rainbird and Ruari McLean including a greeting card.
29195 Oversize
Copy 60 of 150. Woodcut illustrations with text size/font indicating various speakers.
27165
One of 135 copies. Geneva Bible (1560) translation of the Book of Revelation including illustrations and woodcut initials.
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…
BRA0574
Copy 25 of 150. Black and white collages of drawings and computer-generated Columbus type depict a visual interpretation of the Book of Revelation.
10649
Copy 36 of 75. Translation of Psalms by the Benedictine monks of Saint-Lambert-des-Bois.
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.
AFG9277
Copy 16 of 50. Artist's book depicting the Revelation.
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.
AFR8185
Copy 27 out of 200 printed. Text is Robert Alter's English translation with facing text from Biblio Hebraica Stuttgartensis (1967).
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.
27865
Copy 250 of 500. Illustrated version of Psalm 24 on sheets of colored paper trimmed to varying widths.
10268
One of 40 printed copies. This printing of the Song of Songs features decorative typeface along with illumination.
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