The Bible with the Apocrypha, King James Version - Limited Edition - Folio Society - 2011
Edition
The Bible with the Apocrypha, King James Version - Limited Edition - Folio Society - 2011
Condition
Very Good. Some mild foxing present to gilt edges, and interior slipcase. Otherwise fine throughout.
Details
The Bible, with the Apocrypha, King James version. 280 × 192 × 63–68 mm. Type: Swift. Typeset by Cambridge University Press with red ink for chapter and page numbers plus running titles and chapter headings. Bound by Real Lachenmaier in full blue-grey goatskin leather blocked in gold with a design by Stephen Raw. Gilded edges. Blue-grey endleaves. Two-volume wooden slip case covered in dark blue-grey buckram titled (as above), and lined with cream artificial silk with a tray loosely inserted at the bottom to aid the sliding in and out of the volumes. Leaf preceding the title-pages reads in part ‘limited to one thousand copies for sale to members of The Folio Society, and twenty lettered copies which are not for sale’. In two volumes which are as follows:
[1] . . . From Genesis to Solomon. Pp. [1–2], [i–v] vi–xxxv [xxxvi], [1–2] 3–884, [1–6].
[2] . . . From Isaiah to Revelation. Pp. [1–2], [i–v] vi, 885–1868.