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Interleaved 1727/1726 Three volume King James (Baskett) Bible

Interleaved 1727/1726 Three volume King James (Baskett) Bible

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By his Majesties Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University. M DCC XXVII (1727). Price Fifteen Shillings, with Psalms, Unbound. WITH, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.... MDCCXXVI (1726).

 

Three quarto volumes bound in uniform quarter leather with reddish-brown cloth over boards. Two title pages. Includes apocrypha. Spines mildly and variably sunned. Scattered minor tears, chips, and stains to spines. Volume 2 front joint cracking. New End papers. Decorative capitals. An interleaved copy (variably so, sometimes every other leaf, sometimes multiple blanks in a row. NT more sparsely interleaved than OT). No notes written on the additional leaves. Some very mild edge toning and foxing, otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout. Third volume includes the New Testament and followed by and Index to the Bible.

$1,650.00Price

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