Bible

1913 · 001619 — Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1913. Two volumes complete 1913-1914 - Volume I - 648p; Volume II - 632p. Publisher's blind stamped morocco by Riviere & Son raised bands spines in seven panels title in gilt to second volume number and date in gilt to fourth remaining panels with central floral spray and volute tools to side in blind. Covers with outer double panel joined by mitred corners with occasional flower heads and elongated volutes to margins again in blind title and original publisher to head and foot in gilt central panel with blind roll presumably showing Gutenberg's head with a central arabesque inner edges with blind roll combed and curled marbled endpapers a.e.g. Bright and clean. The first complete facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible reproduced from the richly illuminated copies in the Koniglichen Bibliothek Berlin and the Standischen Landesbibliothek Fulda and attractively produced and bound. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good. Elephant Folio. Facsimile. Insel Verlag Hardcover