1836 Oxford King James Bible with Fore-Edge Painting

$1,200.00

Key Features

With Fore-Edge Painting of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
Format: Tall Octavo (approx. 9.75” x 6.75”)
Font:
Two Column Roman Font
Binding:
Black morocco
Printer:
Samuel Collingwood, Oxford
SKU:
R40

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Key Features

With Fore-Edge Painting of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
Format: Tall Octavo (approx. 9.75” x 6.75”)
Font:
Two Column Roman Font
Binding:
Black morocco
Printer:
Samuel Collingwood, Oxford
SKU:
R40

Key Features

With Fore-Edge Painting of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
Format: Tall Octavo (approx. 9.75” x 6.75”)
Font:
Two Column Roman Font
Binding:
Black morocco
Printer:
Samuel Collingwood, Oxford
SKU:
R40

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

Description

Text two column Roman font. Issued without Apocrypha. Printed New Testament title page. With a vanishing fore-edge painting of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. [4], 1232, [2] pp. A-4H^8.

Binding

Bound in black straight-grained morocco. Boards with tiple gilt-lined panel. Spine with gilt tooling and the words “Holy Bible” and “Oxford” lettered in gilt. Inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Condition

Edges and joints rubbed, corners bumped. Rear hinge cracked but holding firm. Bookplate of “John Brocklehurst” to front pastedown. Some writing on rare endpaper in 19th century hand.