The English Bible - Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues By Special Command of His Majesty King James the First and Now Reprinted with the Text Revised By a Collation of Its Early and Other Principal Editions

Hammersmith, London: The Doves Press, 1903. Five volumes complete, 1903-1905 - Volume One - [3], 4-394pp, [2]; Volume Two - [2], 3-518pp, [2]; Volume Three - [2], 15-390pp, [2]; Volume Four - [2], 15-300pp, [2]; and Volume Five - [2], 3-307pp, [1]. Contemporary full vellum by the Doves Bindery (with their stamp to lower pastedowns), title, volume, and publisher in gilt to spine. Gilt to spines very slightly rubbed, vellum with usual discolouring. Internally some occasional light foxing, mainly to first few leaves of first volume, but generally quite bright and clean. Generally with one or three book labels to front pastedowns or ffeps, (though none in volume four), of Templeton Crocker, Julia S. Bigham, and L. W. Jordan Jr. Each volume is housed in a full morocco slipcase, with a two line border in blind. Slipcases are slightly rubbed to extremities, the one for the fifth volume has a scrape to one side. One of five hundred copies on paper (with three known on vellum), published at 15 guineas. Franklin, page 269; Kelly, 'A Century for the Century' 4, calling the initial 'I' "magisterial"; Patkus calls it "a landmark production for the entire period. It had an enormous impact, both for contemporary and later audiences" (Patkus, 'The Privately Printed Bible', page 27); Tidcombe, DP6; Tomkinson, page 54. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Illus. by Johnston, Edward. Folio.