Bible in English [King James Version, The Baskerville Bible]

Folio (19 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.; 489 x 318 mm). Title-pages for Old and New Testaments with continuous register, dedication and text in Great Primer, text in double columns, 64 lines to the full column, marginal notes at the bottom of the text, third version of the List of Subscribers (ending with the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq.), index and tables at the end; some noticeable but light dampstaining along bottom margin, otherwise a bright, clean copy. Contemporary Cambridge-style diced Russia gilt, spine in 8 compartments gilt, red morocco lettering piece, Dutch comb marbled endpapers, edges gilt; boards scuffed and scraped, with some craquelure, joints very dry, spine dry with some small losses, hinges strengthened.

Collingwood Family (birth, death, & marriage records on flyleaf, 1820–1862)

ESTC T93106; Gaskell, 26; Herbert 1146

Folio (19 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.; 489 x 318 mm). Title-pages for Old and New Testaments with continuous register, dedication and text in Great Primer, text in double columns, 64 lines to the full column, marginal notes at the bottom of the text, third version of the List of Subscribers (ending with the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq.), index and tables at the end; some noticeable but light dampstaining along bottom margin, otherwise a bright, clean copy. Contemporary Cambridge-style diced Russia gilt, spine in 8 compartments gilt, red morocco lettering piece, Dutch comb marbled endpapers, edges gilt; boards scuffed and scraped, with some craquelure, joints very dry, spine dry with some small losses, hinges strengthened.
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A handsome copy with wide margins of this fine edition by Baskerville which "has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen" (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries ..., p. 279). It is particularly notable for its unadorned elegance and large, clear type. As his prospectus for 1761 announced, since "many Gentlemen have objected to every Kind of Ornament round the Page, the work will be printed quite plain, with the marginal notes all at the bottom."