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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 and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F.H. Scrivener ... for the Syndics of the University Press, Cambridge.

Accession number
PML 52166-70
Published
Hammersmith : Doves Press, 1903-1905.
Credit line
Gift of Norman H. Strouse, 1961.
Notes
Text begins with red initial extending to bottom of page, followed by three words in red.
Colophon of v. 2-5: "Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press, No. I, The Terrace, Hammersmith, from the text of the late Dr Schrivener's Paragraph Bible by permission of the Syndics of the University Press, Cambridge. The verse has been divided into stanzas by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & the proofs have been read by The University Press. Compositors: J.H. Mason, J. Guttridge, C.T. Greengrass. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole, J. Ryan, T. Waller, A. Beaumont. Finished October 15, 1903 ... Sold at The Doves Press, and by C.J. Clay and Sons, The Cambridge University Press Warehouse, London. ... Finished October 19 1904."
Colophon of v. 1 begins: "Here ends the first volume of the English Bible ..."
"The type ... was laid by J.H. Mason and the edition has been regarded as the most beautifully printed Bible of the century. Only 500 copies were printed and the type was destroyed"--Herbert, A.S., Engl. Bible, 2139.
Volumes dated: v.1: December, 1902; v.2: October 15, 1903; v. 3: May 13, 1904; v. 4: September 1, 1904; v. 5: October 19, 1904.
Presentation copy from Emery Walker to Sydney Cockerell with an inscription in each volume.
With a collection of specimen and trial pages (including several for the 1st chapter of Genesis), order forms, and a postcard from Douglas Cockerell to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 23 Oct. 1947, relating to foxed leaves in the B.M. Fletcher copy. In bl. cloth box.
Description
5 v. ; 33 cm.
Provenance
Sydney Cockerell; Norman H. Strouse.
Binding
Vellum; in black cloth boxes.
Classification
Department