Baskerville, John (printer)
The Holy Bible
£1,260
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Containing the Old Testament and the New, with the Apocrypha. Translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1769-71. Folio (39.2 x 24cm), unpaginated, signatures pi1 [A]-13K2 (-13K2, cancelled), contemporary dark blue-green morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 7 engraved plates including frontispiece, New Testament with separate dated title-page (register continuous), manuscript genealogy of the Gresley family of Lichfield to initial blank, general title-page browned and with blank verso adhering to blank recto of contents leaf, small hole in 10Q1 affecting one word either side;
Together with 2 others including a Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1787, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt (3)
Footnote
First Baskerville edition of the Bible printed in Birmingham (he had previously produced editions at Cambridge while printer to the university).