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Collection: The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts
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Text of the description of Jesus calling the Apostles to service with images of the Apostles drawn from a casket he saw at the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum.
12145
Copy 97 of 200. Psalms 1, 23, 121, 128, and 150 are illustrated with silkscreen.
12138
Copy 207 of 250. Fourteen-color lithographs with French text from the Sainte Bible (1672).
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.
12086 Folio
Copy 1 of 250 printed on Arches paper. Twenty-four original lithographs by Marc Chagall alongside exerpts from the story of Exodus.
12072
Copy 25 of 285. Illustrations were printed from original wood blocks engraved by Stefan Martin. David Soshensky did a full-page calligraphy title.
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.
10988
Copy 64 of 250. Six wood engravings illustrating the Passion of Christ.
10951
Copy 367 of 750. Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) arranged the text of Song of Songs as a playscript.
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.
10655
Copy 66 of 300. In this edition, Job is laid out as prose although the edition states that this book is poetry.
10649
Copy 36 of 75. Translation of Psalms by the Benedictine monks of Saint-Lambert-des-Bois.
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.
10600
Modernized spelling of text selected from the King James 1611 translation.
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 .
10394
Printed by Cobden-Sanderson in a new, proprietary type, this Bible highlights their focus on art through layout and letterform.
10329
One of 500 copies. Decorated initials.
10268
One of 40 printed copies. This printing of the Song of Songs features decorative typeface along with illumination.
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.
00403
Copy 156 of 250. Printed in the layout of the Doves Press Bible with illustrations that portray the symbolic imagery of the text.
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