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DOVES PRESS BIBLE. The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of th...
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DOVES PRESS BIBLE. The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First.... Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-1905. 5 volumes. 4to (335 x 234 mm). Initials printed in red. Uncut in original limp vellum by Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, housed in custom oxblood levant morocco slipcases. Occasional faint foxing with a few darker instances mainly in 4th volume along lower margin, light shelfwear and a few stray spots to bindings, slipcases with shelfwear. Provenance: Templeton Crocker, past president of the California Historical Society (bookplates); Julia Scribner Bigham Memorial Collection, St. Mark's Library (vellum bookplates); L.W. Jordan, Jr. (bookplates). LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets. 'Regarded as the most beautifully printed Bible of the twentieth century' (Herbert), and described by Colin Franklin as the Press's 'magnum opus' (The Private Presses). The Bible is the only folio printed by Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press. 'The great red initial 'I' that dominates and yet fixes exactly the opening page of Genesis in the Doves Bible is a pattern for all time of complexity reduced to the minimum of simplicity. Of approximately fifty publications issued between 1901 and 1916, the outstanding item is the complete Bible, published in five large quarto volumes... if there were any doubt concerning the courage of the man, we need only consider the magnitude of such a work, to be produced by one compositor and upon one hand press. That one compositor, of course, was exceptional. Every Doves book is a proof of J.H. Mason's ability in composition... The Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer stand side by side upon the highest peak of typographical accomplishment, utterly dissimilar yet with the same element of greatness incontestable. Though popular belief holds the Gutenberg Bible to be the most beautiful book ever printed, these two monumental volumes prove once more that popular belief may be inaccurate' (Ransom, Fine Presses and Their Books, 56); Herbert English Bibles 2139. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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DOVES PRESS BIBLE. The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First.... Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-1905. 5 volumes. 4to (335 x 234 mm). Initials printed in red. Uncut in original limp vellum by Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, housed in custom oxblood levant morocco slipcases. Occasional faint foxing with a few darker instances mainly in 4th volume along lower margin, light shelfwear and a few stray spots to bindings, slipcases with shelfwear. Provenance: Templeton Crocker, past president of the California Historical Society (bookplates); Julia Scribner Bigham Memorial Collection, St. Mark's Library (vellum bookplates); L.W. Jordan, Jr. (bookplates). LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets. 'Regarded as the most beautifully printed Bible of the twentieth century' (Herbert), and described by Colin Franklin as the Press's 'magnum opus' (The Private Presses). The Bible is the only folio printed by Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press. 'The great red initial 'I' that dominates and yet fixes exactly the opening page of Genesis in the Doves Bible is a pattern for all time of complexity reduced to the minimum of simplicity. Of approximately fifty publications issued between 1901 and 1916, the outstanding item is the complete Bible, published in five large quarto volumes... if there were any doubt concerning the courage of the man, we need only consider the magnitude of such a work, to be produced by one compositor and upon one hand press. That one compositor, of course, was exceptional. Every Doves book is a proof of J.H. Mason's ability in composition... The Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer stand side by side upon the highest peak of typographical accomplishment, utterly dissimilar yet with the same element of greatness incontestable. Though popular belief holds the Gutenberg Bible to be the most beautiful book ever printed, these two monumental volumes prove once more that popular belief may be inaccurate' (Ransom, Fine Presses and Their Books, 56); Herbert English Bibles 2139. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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