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 M.A. LL. D. for the syndics of the University Press Cambridge.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bible. English. Authorized. 1903.
Corporate Author: Doves Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891 (Editor)
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922 (Printer)
Walker, Emery, 1851-1933 (Printer)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Undetermined
Published: [London] : The Doves Press, no. 1 The Terrace Hammersmith, MDCCCCIII-MDCCCCV [1903-1905]
Subjects:
Graphic design (Typography)
Printing > Specimens.
Printing > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Private presses > Great Britain > 20th century.
Signed bindings (Binding) > 20th century.
Vellum bindings (Binding) > 20th century.
Genre:
Specimens.
Signed bindings (Binding)
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Ownership and Custodial History:
MSU: Formerly in the Brooklyn Public Library, there purchased with the bequest of James A.H. Bell.
MSU: Additional provenance information, including bookseller correspondence, in MSS 466 box 1 folder 68.
Local Note:
MSU: A copy of "The closing of the Doves Press" (1969), once laid in, cataloged separately as Z232.C65 A4 1969.
Binding Information:
MSU: Original limp vellum signed by the Doves Bindery.
Physical Description:5 volumes ; 34 cm (folio)
Format: Book
Description
Note:Generally considered the masterpiece of the Doves Press and one of the three great monuments of the fine press movement.
Volume 1, colophon: "Finished December 1902" --vol: 2: October 15 1903 -- volume 3: May 14 1904. -- vol. 4: September 1 1904 -- vol. 5: October 19, 1904.
"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at The Doves Press ... from the text of the late Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible ... The verse has been divided into stanzas by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson ... Compositors: J.H. Mason, J. Guttridge, C.F. Greengrass. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole, J. Ryan, T. Waller, A. Beaumont. Finished October 19 1904. Sold at the Doves Press, and by C.J. Clay and Sons, the Cambridge University Press Warehouse, London."--Colophon, volume 5.
Hand-lettered initials in red throughout by Edward Johnston.
One of 500 copies printed on paper.
Call Number:BS185 1903 .H3
XX folio
References:
Herbert, A.S. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961, 2139.
Tidcombe, M. Doves Press, DP6.
Tomkinson, G.S. Select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland, Doves 6, p. 54.
Ransom, W. Private presses, Doves 6, p. 251.
Source of Acquisition:
PBA Galleries; Purchase; 2016. MiEM.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.