The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and The New: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. London: John Reeves, 1802.
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A beautiful antique King James Bible printed in 1802, here spread across four volumes and thus allowing for a really great readability as the type is a good size and layout and the paper is a great weight. Truly a fantastic set, with the Old Testament spread across the first three volumes and the New Testament in the fourth volume.
This set is also remarkable for its fantastic provenance which dates all the way back to the time of printing through to at least 1947 but quite likely even later, and so we here have a beautiful Bible which has been well cared for in the same family's collection for well over a century, quite possibly as much as two centuries, and it still remains in the original beautiful intricately decorated red bindings.
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Size: 156 x 231 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, t.p., 1ff. (dedication), vii-xviii, 3pp. (dedication), 1pp. (list of books), B1-2N6]; [t.p., 2N7-2R2, A1-S6]; [half title, t.p., T1-3H2]; [t.p., 1ff. (list of books), B1-2G2]
Fine full red morocco with gilt tooled borders to boards, and gilt titles and deocrative designs to spines. Bindings lightly rubbed and scuffed, spines sunned. Shelf and edge wear. Very small fragment from the bottom of the backstrip of volume two very loosley attached. All page edges gilt with some scratches. No attached bookplates. Ownership stamp with initials to front blanks in all volumes. Pen ownership inscriptions and other ink inscriptions to blanks, more so to the blanks in volume one. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occcaisonal foxing. Boards very lightly warped.
