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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. [573] leaves. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 487x320 mm, contemporary red morocco, covers richly gilt-tooled to panel design with floral border around onlaid morocco frame embellished with floral and ornamental tooling, enclosing centerpiece of 2 nesting circular morocco onlays decorated with Holy Monogram within concentric borders of winged cherub heads, three-pointed crowns, stars, dots, circles, and flame tools, spine in 7 compartments, morocco lettering piece in one with onlaid morocco rosette and floral and ornamental tooling in the rest, spine ends minimally rubbed, cover corners bumped; infrequent minor marginal foxing, some light browning toward end, small piece torn from front flyleaf, clean tear in T1 and Oo1, still an exceptional copy overall. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763
first baskerville edition of the king james bible, in a superlative contemporary binding. one of 1250 copies. Third variant of the subscribers' list, ending with "York." Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146; Rothschild 2640.
