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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, 5 vol. bound in 3, Doves Press, 1903-1905 image 1
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, 5 vol. bound in 3, Doves Press, 1903-1905 image 2
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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, 5 vol. bound in 3, Doves Press, 1903-1905

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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, 5 vol. bound in 3, limited to 500 copies, numerous initials printed in red, some light spotting to volumes 2 and 4, crushed dark blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with 4-line border, spines in compartments with title, publisher, date and monogram of C.S. Ascherson, g.e. [Herbert 2139], folio, Doves Press, 1903-1905

Footnotes

"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.

Provenance: C.S. Ascherson, gilt monogram on spine; Bonhams, 22 March 2011, lot 102.

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