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17186869Llundain London: Joan Basged i.e. John Baskett 1718. 8vo pp. 116 1048 40 2 folding maps. Contemporary panelled calf spine divided by raised bands edges sprinkled red. A little toned some scattered foxing. Rubbed and a little worn foot of spine defective leather peeling. This edition of the bible in Welsh here with prayerbook and psalms was issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge under the editorship of Moses Williams. The first sheets were finished by November 1715 although the whole was not published until May 1718; some printings as with the Psalms here bear a printed date of 1717. This copy also contains an Apocrypha not found in all copies and a scripture index not called for by ESTC an issue without both of these was also available for nonconformists. This edition also contains the two maps of the Holy Land which per Darlow and Moule were only included in 4000 of the 10000 copies produced ‘perhaps the subscribers’ copies’. Darlow & Moule 9595; ESTC T125812; T126074; T125814. Joan Basged [i.e. John Baskett] hardcover
171047429ABNürnberg, Endter, 1710. Folio. 32 Bll., 1181 S., 11 Bll. Mit 8 (von 9) Kupfertafeln, 145 Textkupfern und zahlreichen gest. Initialen. Blindgeprägter Schweinslederband der Zeit über Holzdeckel mit 8 Messing-Eckbeschlägen, 2 zentralen Messing-Buckeln und 2 Messing-Schliessen.
172068577Paris, um 1720. Äußere Platte ca. 22,5 x 18.7 cm, Blatt ca. 25,5 x 22 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
1707265534Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1707. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers rubbed joints tender but cords holding; onternally fine. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. The first eight books only of the famous edition of the Septuagint here in the same type as the folio version but issued in octavo format "to prevent the book from being piratically printed in Germany." Darlow & Moule. The volume contains the first eight books ending with the Book of Ruth. Darlow & Moule 4734 E Theatro Sheldoniano unknown books
177653321Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1776. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes folio published in 1776 and 1780. xxiii title and subscribers' list 1 blank VIII preface 684 1 catalogue of manuscripts 1 blank; 4 title and subscribers' list 732 129 1 blank 6 indicespp. Expertly rebound in modern quarter vellum over marbled boards spines titled in gilt. Titles darkened and dusty; very occasional light foxing or oxidation spots; dampstain at bottom quarter of the first twenty and final four leaves in the first volume else a nearly fine wide-margined set crisp and uncut.<br /> <br /> First edition and the "earliest attempt to provide a critical edition of the Hebrew Scriptures on a large scale†D&M and a notable early example of a large-scale scholarly project which attracted international financial and scholarly support. The biblical scholar Benjamin Kennicott 1718-1783 was educated at Oxford and "instructed in Hebrew by Professor Thomas Hunt and the greater part of his life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament. Robert Lowth always his major patron first inspired him with a desire to test the accuracy of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. With his formidable knowledge of Syriac early Latin the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task. His critical examination of manuscripts initially in the British Museum and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge began in 1751 and when Thomas Secker then bishop of Oxford and also a member of Exeter College urged him in March 1758 to undertake their collation he agreed to the request. In return Secker when archbishop of Canterbury gave Kennicott his unstinting support and friendship when for a time he nurtured a project for producing a revised Authorized Version of the Bible. Meanwhile in 1753 Kennicott issued The State of the Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament Considered: a Dissertation and in 1759 he brought out a second dissertation on the same subject. He identified his object thus: to compare Scripture with itself to explain a difficult phrase or passage by a clear one that bears some relation to it to consider the natural force of the Original Words the tendency of the Context and the Design of the Writer; to compare the most ancient editions of the Original with one another and with the best copies of the most celebrated versions vol.1 p.12. These volumes were translated into Latin by W. A. Teller and published at Leipzig the first in 1756 the second with additions in 1765.<br /> <br /> Kennicott's scholarly endeavours attracted support in Britain and beyond. In England subscriptions amounted to £9119 7s. 6d.; in France the duc de Nivernois a former French ambassador to the court of St James patronized him and helped him to gain access to Parisian manuscript collections in 1767; the king of Denmark offered him the use of six ancient manuscripts; four quarto volumes of variant readings were sent to him on the king of Sardinia's orders; and the stadholder of the Netherlands made an annual donation of 30 guineas. His first report On the Collation of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament was forwarded to the subscribers in December 1760 and a similar statement appeared each year until 1769. This annual summary afforded him an opportunity to defend the accuracy of his own collations the Hebraic scholarship of the staff assisting him and to print lists of subscribers. A copy of the entire work was personally presented by Kennicott to George III. Lowth called the 1776 variorum Old Testament 'a work the greatest and most important that has been undertaken and accomplished since the Revolution of Letters' B. Hepworth Robert Lowth p. 145" Nigel Aston ODNB. An early judgement on this seminal edition is provided by William Orme in his 1824 Bibliotheca Biblica: “This is beyond all comparison the most splendid edition of the Hebrew Scriptures ever published. It was patronized by most of the crowned heads of Europe. It occupied its learned editor in preparation or actual labour more than thirty years. More than six hundred MSS. and editions were collated for it in all parts of Europe. The text is that of Vander Hooght without the points. The Samaritan Pentateuch where it differs from the Hebrew text is printed in parallel columns in the Hebrew character. The various readings are almost innumerable and occupy in general the largest half of every page. The Dissertatio Generalis annexed to the second volume is invaluable for the information which it contains respecting the state of the original text and the sound principles of criticism which it exhibits." The final leaf lists 312 manuscripts and some printed editions which provided the various readings noted throughout the apparatus. The concluding Dissertatio Generalis was republished separately at Braunschweig in 1783 by professor Paul Jakob Bruns who assisted Kennicott in his collations.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the Parochial Library of St Phillips Birmingham in the County of Warwick at front endleaf in both volumes. References: N. Aston "Benjamin Kennicott" in: ODNB. Darlow & Moule 5160. ESTC T147508. Orme Bibl. Biblica 238. For a notable recent discussion see J. Turner Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Princeton Univ. Press 2014 77f. An earlier assessment of the critical endeavors of Kennicott and De Rossi appears in N. P. Wiseman's 1836 Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion pp.368-371 ed. Dublin 1866. The Clarendon Press hardcover
1731LV1890Amsterdam:: R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith 1731. 1731. 4to. xii 750 pp. Half title engraved title printer’s device title printed in red and black main body of text printed in double columns separate half-title-page: Davidis Regis et Prophetae Psalmi . . . Z2; Liber Proverbiorum Salomonis Zzz1; upper edge of pp. 242-254 nicked. Some pages misnumbered. Contemporary full calf gilt-stamped spine and red leather spine label 6 raised bands; front cover detached rear cover hanging from 1 cord spine missing pieces – needs rebinding. Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to title-page and following page. As is. This is the final 1731 work of Leclerc’s commentaries on the Bible that began in 1693 with his Book of Genesis being in particular the sections on Jacob Psalms of David Solomon Proverbs etc. "Founding principally on the position that more recent objects are referred to in the Canon than such as were known in the time of Ezra Leclerc was of opinion that the collection of the Canon is due to the zealous endeavours of pious individuals who had preserved the separate parts of it until the reading of the Prophets along with the Law came into use in the age of the Maccabees which rendered the collecting of the whole necessary" Havernick p. 33. Chetham’s Library and the Cambridge copies both have 3 folding plates but no evidence of plates maps in 15 other copies listed on Copac. No plates are in this copy. REFERENCES: BM compact ed. vol. 3 p. 45; Havernick Heinrich Andreas C. A General Historico-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament Tr. by W.L. Alexander Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1852. R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith, 1731. hardcover books
176954140ABAmsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1769. Kl.-8vo. 4 Bll., 480 S. Roter Maroquinband der Zeit mit floraler Vergoldung, Goldschnitt.
1758DEMO015188ILondon: Worrall & Withers 1758. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; xvi 366 pages contemporary calf rebacked with leather scuffed lacks preliminary leaves and free endpapers some leaves started. Scarce. <br/><br/>Rare sermon sequence. Romaine was renowned for his sermons and his LIFE WALK AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH; but he was a noted scholar of Hebrew including a revision of de Calasio's multivolume dictionary of Hebrew. ESTC CT25845. "There has been more ridicule wasted upon the Song than upon any other portion of God's word. And we need not marvel at it. The devil has a particular spite against this book; he hates the subject and he hates the composition - Preface." Worrall & Withers hardcover
17891086E441Glocester Gloucester: Printed by R. Raikes for J. Robson and Co. New Bond-Street London 1789. 1st Edition Thus . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxvi 2 499 1. Very Good. 5.5 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22.5 cm. Contemporary full marbled calf leather binding gilt ruled compartments to spine with red morocco title label. Red speckled page edges marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplate to verso of front free endpaper Hicks. Cracking to front joint but solidly bound. Rubbing to spine wear to corners of boards. A little light foxing text is otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Old paper repair to corner of final page. A very nice example. ESTC T82687. . Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22.5 cm. Printed by R. Raikes, for J. Robson and Co. New Bond-Street, London hardcover
1729GITj971A Amsterdam chez Pierre Humbert 1729. In-12 22 feuillets non chiffrés (faux-titre, titre, épître dédicatoire, préface, table des matières) 371pp. Pleine basane havane marbrée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets et pastilles dorés, pièce de titre grenat, tranches brique, reliure de l'époque. Mors du 1er plat fendillé en queue (environ 3cm). Bel exemplaire complet et frais à l'exception du défaut signalé. Caillet 10153. Quérard France Littéraire IX, 68. Brunet VI 8898. Pas dans Dorbon.
170536556Amsterdam & Utrecht: H. Boom Joh. II van Waesberge Goethals Ger. Borstius Joh. Wolters Fr. Halma W. van de Water & W. Broedelet 1705. Third Edition . Hardcover - as published. Engraved title page in red & black plus four additional engraved title pages for each of the four parts into which the text is divided: 1 Genesis - Deuter.; 2 the Prophetae antiores; 3 the Prophetae posteriores; and 4 Hagiographa. Text is in Hebrew with the preliminaries and preface by van der Hooght & others as well as the printed marginalia in Latin. This is actually the third editon edited & revised by van der Hooght of the famous Hebrew Bible originally published by Joseph Athias in 1661. Thick octavo; a.e.g. Some light worming to end leaves pastedown & rear board; lacking rear front fly leaf & front rear fly leaf. Also first engraving detached. Spine is dry and rubbed along raised bands 5 panels with some light wear to edges & joints; head of spine is torn but without loss; rubbed label in 2nd panel present & readable; some worming at head of spine; small gouge on back board. A very nice internally clean tight copy of a scarce title. H. Boom, Joh. II van Waesberge, Goethals, Ger. Borstius, Joh. Wolters, Fr. Halma, W. van de Water, & W. Broedelet hardcover
1786ST20133London: Excudebant A. Rivington & J. Marshall: Impensis J. F. & C. Rivington T. Longman & T. Cadell 1786. 175 x 105 mm. 7 x 4 1/4". 368 pp. 1 leaf ads. <br/> Contemporary brown "school cloth" rough linen raised bands. Front flyleaf with owner inscription of John Cutler dated Sept 21 1789 four lines of Latin doggerel threatening anyone who steals the book with hanging and two large copperplate trials of Cutler's signature. ESTC N63834. Not in Darlow & Moule. A little fraying at top and bottom of joints light foxing and toning throughout due to paper quality a couple of small ink stains but a surprisingly appealing copy the text extremely clean and the unsophisticated makeshift binding--remarkably--with no significant wear.<br/> <br/> This is an almost startling survival: an 18th century New Testament in Greek in its original utilitarian binding preserved in condition far better than what could be anticipated given the audience of generally uncareful pupils for which it was intended. Considering the usual depredations of school children the rough school cloth should have been worn to shreds long ago but against the odds it has fortuitously escaped hard use and now gives us a glimpse of an important element of the English schoolroom very close to its original condition. One particularly delightful aspect of our copy is the flamboyant declaration of ownership by a pupil called John Cutter who inked his name no fewer than four times in different styles and with calligraphic flourishes across the flyleaf. Cutter's neatly penned book curse threating any would-be thieves with hanging may have helped to preserve the book as it now exists. In fact there are few signs of use by any owner rightful or unlawful. The leaves are free from any markings and the insubstantial binding appears to have rarely left the shelf. Excudebant A. Rivington & J. Marshall: Impensis J. F. & C. Rivington, T. Longman, & T. Cadell unknown
17958390<p><b>1795 ENORMOUS McDowall Family Bible Kennicott IRISH Dublin Ireland Illustrated </b></p><p><i>The 'Kennicott Bible' has <b>long been known as one of the most lavishly illustrated Bibles of the 18th-century</b>. Benjamin Kennicott was a well-known English Hebraist who studied the Hebrew Bible and made his life's work studying and comparing variants of Hebrew manuscripts. And while mass-produced editions of Kennicott's Bible were not produced with the same vibrancy and page-to-page illustrations as the original Family Bibles with Kennicott's translations are still popular and widely read.</i></p><p><i>This 1795 Dublin printing was published by Zachariah Jackson who included <b>50 impressive full-page engravings</b> in this 'authorized' edition.</i></p><p>Item number: #8390 </p><p>Price: $950</p><p>Holy Bible</p><p><b><i>The universal family Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testament with the Apocrypha at large; explained and illustrated with copious notes and annotations theological historical practical critical and explanatory . In this work are inserted the most valuable collection of notes ever published selected from the writings of such eminent divines . and . a general index or concordance . a chronological index of transactions from Adam to the time of Our Blessed Saviour. A geographical index . a full explanation of the proper names in the scriptures . a brief account of the apostles and their successor . by the late Rev. Benjamin Kennicott and now considerably improved by a clergyman of this Kingdom. Embellished . with upwards of fifty engravings .</i></b></p><p>Dublin: Printed and published by Zachariah Jackson 1795.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o Signatures: A-8p2; A-Rrrr2</p><p>o 50 full-page engraved plates</p><p>· Provenance: Bookplate</p><p>o McDowall Family of Lisburn since 1794</p><p>· Language: English</p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight & secure</p><p>· Size: ~17in X 11.25in X 3.75in 43cm x 28.5cm x 9.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>8390</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p><br /> Zachariah Jackson hardcover
1797T22<p>Octavo approx. 7" x 4.5". 5 vols. Eighteenth century Pentateuch vocalized. Text in Hebrew in single column format. Commentary by Rashi. Title pages within borders. Occasional headpieces and ornaments. </p><p><strong>Collation: </strong>Genesis: 1 title 1-194 1-41 13 1-72 1-32; Exodus: lacks title 1-182 1-52 13 1-72 12 24 1-62; Leviticus: 1 title 1-124 1-42 51 13 1-72 1-54 62 72 84 91; Numbers: 1 title1-154 11-3113 1-72 12 24 32; Deuteronomy: 1 title 1-143 1-32 13 1-72 1-31. Exodus lacks title otherwise complete. </p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebound in quarter calf. Spines lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Accompanied by slipcase.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Clean and bright. The second volume chipped at head and with some staining to lower gutter impacting up to five lines of text. </p><p><strong>Provenance: </strong>"Sara van Gelder Loewenstamm" to front endpaper of first volume. Collection of Tim Lutz.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>The Proops family were a notable dynasty of Hebrew printers publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam. Solomon ben Yosef d. 1734 likely son of a printer began as a bookseller and in 1704 founded a Hebrew press producing liturgical works as well as texts on halakhah Kabbalah ethics and history. From 1715 his books carried advertisements and in 1730 he issued the first Hebrew sales catalogue.</p><p>After his death guardians and later his sons continued the press using his name until 1751. In 1785 Joseph Proops sold most stock to Kurzbeck of Vienna; his widow and sons printed on a smaller scale until 1812. Solomon ben Abraham Proops his grandson split in 1797 and worked independently until 1827.</p> Proops family of printers hardcover
17907033London publish'd by W. Miller 1790. . 1790 4to. 4 xlvii 1 142 p. Engraved throughout except for the Preface which is signed Edward Miller Doncaster March 1790 the List of Subscribers and the Advertisement which are printed by letterpress. Contemporary quarter calf which is worn but sound. The spine with raised bands lacking its label. The contents are clean and tight. London, publish'd by W. Miller, hardcover
1800173564London: printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley 1800. The grandest Bible ever printed in Britain First Macklin edition of the Bible handsomely bound. "The most ambitious edition produced in Britain often pirated but never rivalled" ODNB this Bible is a masterpiece of book art published at the apogee of British copperplate engraving and involving some of the best artists of its day. The Bible dedicated to the king was published serially between 1791 and 1800 in 70 parts each at £1. 1s. Thomas Macklin 1752-1800 began work on the project in the year following the opening of his famous Poets' Gallery in Pall Mall. The prospectus issued in 1789 explained that he was planning to add scripture pictures to his exhibition to be then reproduced in a "magnificent Bible". The paintings were realised by several artists including Hamilton Fuseli and Loutherbourg and exhibited at the Poets' Gallery between 1790 and 1796. Initially promising 60 plates the project eventually included 71 some of which never appeared in Macklin's exhibitions. Most of the headpiece and tailpiece vignettes were designed by Loutherbourg the type was cut by Joseph Jackson and his apprentice Vincent Figgins and the paper made by Whatman. The Bible took 11 years to complete and the publication costs exceeding £30000 almost bankrupted Macklin. Though the final engraving was finished five days before his death the last of the vignettes was not completed for another six weeks and he consequently never saw the finished work. Some copies of the Bible were bound in a fine neoclassical style by contemporary London binders particularly Staggemeier and Welcher. This set is unsigned but the treatment of the spine appears closer to the work of Kalthoeber see Maggs Cat. 1212 II no. 164. This set is bound in six volumes as recommended in the instructions to the binder vol. I. However sets are sometimes found bound in seven. 6 vols large folio 458 x 370 mm. With 71 copper engraved plates after Fuseli and others 113 wood engraved vignette head- and tailpieces. Contemporary diced russia spines with raised bands compartments lettered and tooled in gilt elaborate gilt frames to covers incorporating foliate and flower tools board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt leather inner hinges marbled endpapers edges gilt silk bookmarkers. Bound with half-titles. A few trivial marks and light scuffs to covers small cosmetic repair to rear cover of vol. I superficial splits to a couple of joints subsequently retouched and now firm occasional foxing to contents and offsetting from plates else clean and bright. A very good set. ESTC T123175; Herbert 1441; Lowndes I p. 192. Maggs Bros Ltd Bookbinding in the British Isles Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Cat. 1212 Part II 1996. hardcover
1771373724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine for and sold by John Perkins in Union-Street near the market 1771. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. Contemporary calf rebacked. Expert restoration. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. ETSC records only two examples of this issue AAS and NYPL. Evans 11987; ESTC W4709; Welch 1072.27 Printed [by William M'Alpine] for and sold by John Perkins, in Union-Street, near the market unknown
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare American Bible with the Great Seal of the U.S. on the Title. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown books
1767001789London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. Hard Cover. Good . 220 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-N12 O4. Contemporary full calf; five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt borders on spine and on boards. All page edges red. Title printed within double rule. A leaf formerly attached to front fixed endpaper possibly with birth and death information now mostly removed. Former owner information on front free endpaper: Presented by Debarah Darby to Henry Hull 1811; Presented by Sarah C. Hull to Margaret Parker 5th mo 1845; Presented by Margaret Park to Samuel Allinson 1848; Presented to Saml. Bettle Jr. by Saml. Allinson Jr. 12mo 1855. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed; front joint starting to separate; tailband torn but present; most of gilt gone; most of back free endpaper lacking; foxing heaviest on title page and first few leaves; otherwise pages are clean and tight. Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett unknown
1790374001New York: Hugh Gaine 1790. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. Contemporary sheep minor wear. Tear to front endpaper else very good. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. The second NT printed in New York preceded only by the prior edition by Gaine dated 1789 known in but one extant example at NYPL and evidently from the same setting of type as this edition. The complete Bible was not published in New York until 1792. Evans 22359; Hills 27; ESTC W4679 Hugh Gaine unknown
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown
1800ST20221aLondon: T. Bensley for T. Macklin final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies 1800 for the six volumes of the Bible 1816 for the Apocrypha. First Printing of this Edition. 480 x 385 mm. 19 x 15 1/8". One leaf in the Apocrypha 3P2 comprising two prologues of Ecclesiasticus invisibly inserted from another copy. Seven volumes comprising the regular Bible in six volumes and the Apocrypha usually not included as a seventh volume. <br/> ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY RED NEOCLASSICAL-STYLE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO SUMPTUOUSLY GILT AND ONLAID WITH BLUE BY GEORG FRIEDRICH KRAUSS done for Prince Albert Casimir Duke of Saxe-Teschen with repeated "AST" monogram covers with very elaborate frames incorporating 11 plain and decorative gilt rules four onlaid borders of blue morocco and very elegant swirling foliate ornamentation around the central scalloped panel six pairs of raised bands each pair flanking a recessed gilt and blue metope and pentaglyph rule very handsome spine compartments with blue fan-shaped cornerpieces and central gilt-decorated blue medallions within sunburst gilt collars turn-ins with Greek key pattern in gilt striking endleaves of turquoise and green watered silk the Apochrypha endleaves slightly different. With more than 100 allegorical headpieces and tailpieces and some 70 SPLENDID LARGE-FOLIO-SIZE COPPER PLATES after Fuseli Reynolds West and others most plates printed before letters. Tissue guards perhaps later. Herbert 1442 and 1651. First volume with about 30 leaves noticeably foxed the majority of plates offset onto previous and following pages consistent inoffensive offsetting of text on facing pages other trivial imperfections but still a very impressive copy internally with the luxurious paper used for the text both fresh and clean and the engravings richly impressed and with very little foxing. Some unimportant scuffing and rubbing to the leather but all defects minor THE MAGNIFICENT BINDINGS REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED the heavy volumes completely solid with only insignificant signs of use and THE MOROCCO AND LAVISHLY GILT DECORATION EXTREMELY BRIGHT. AN ALTOGETHER MEMORABLE COPY.<br/> <br/> The most prodigious form of Scripture in English ever published the Macklin Bible was often put into ornate bindings especially by London binders like Staggemeier and his contemporaries. But however much other sets may glisten the present magnificent example surely stands at or near the front of the line as one of the most lavishly decorated and arresting copies in existence. Its decorative extravagance also testifies to the fact that Macklin's publication was sufficiently admired outside of England to warrant the finest workmanship and the expenditure of great sums of money on artistic resources. The very large and bold type the fine Whatman paper and the series of engravings by some of the most celebrated artists of the period make this an item that is already very desirable. Like the Boydell "Shakespeare Gallery" also printed by Bensley our Macklin Bible is a vast picture book with illustrations that are grand both in size and emotional impact. But it is of course the bindings here that matter the most. Francesco Piranesi is generally given credit for inventing the Neoclassical style when he designed volumes presented to Gustavus III of Sweden during this monarch's visit to Rome in 1783-84. Quickly popular the Neoclassical style was imitated and developed by Staggemeier & Welcher in London by F. W. Standlander in Stockholm and by Georg Friedrich Krauss in Vienna. Krauss was the most prominent Continental binder working in this style of the day and Saxe-Teschen was perhaps his most important client. Products of the Krauss bindery have passed through some of the most distinguished collections over the years particularly those of Fürstenberg and Schäfer; and his bindings have consistently brought remarkable sums of money at auction. It is sufficient to say that the present group of bindings represents the most impressive collection of decorative volumes we have ever offered for sale. The collector for whom these bindings were originally executed Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen 1738-1822 was the son of Friedrich August II of Saxony and the son-in-law of the empress Maria Theresa. After providing important military and civil service to the Habsburg empire he retired to Vienna in 1795 and afterward devoted himself to the fine arts. He founded the Albertina which now houses the greatest collection of prints in the world and he put together a great library distinguished by the highest taste and most exacting standards. The present copy has the additional distinction of containing what amounts to an extra volume: the Macklin Bible however it is bound most often appears in the marketplace without the Apocrypha appearing here as Volume VII which was not issued until 16 years after the others. It is also of some interest that the bindings of our seven volumes were decorated in an entirely uniform fashion as a close inspection shows something not typical of a set with volumes published so many years apart. The non-uniform endleaves in the final volume here may have resulted from the fact that given the physical size of the books the binder simply ran out of the cloth he had used for lining the first six volumes. The present set was offered though unsold at Sotheby's in 2003 with an estimate of £40-50000 approximately $64000-80000 and in 2005 for £30-40000 approximately $54000-72000. T. Bensley for T. Macklin [final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies] unknown
1800512129Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. First edition of The Macklin Bible a masterpiece of book design that has been called 'the last of the great Bibles.' Complete in six volumes without the posthumously published Apocrypha. Elephant Folio 19' x 15.5' and . Full red morocco covers with gilt rolled Greek meander borders spines with double raised bands gilt in seven compartments all edges gilt gilt dentelle marbled endpapers. Sturdy bindings are remarkably solid despite the demands of these heavy textblocks. Very Good ex-libris from the John Wilson Collection of Multnomah County Library with small bookplates on paste downs a few penciled notes to versos of title pages but otherwise unmarked. Wide margins. Bindings scuffed and soiled rubbed along joints wear at heads and tails. Contents generally bright with typical offsetting from engravings; many tissue guards still present. Handwritten 2pp. 1889 note from London bookseller Henry Sotheran tipped-in to Vol. 1 wherein he apologizes for the lack of The Apocrypha which was published in 1816. Exhaustively illustrated throughout with engravings including 70 full-page copperplates after Benjamin West Angelica Kauffman Henry Fuseli William Artaud Joshua Reynolds Philip James de Loutherbourg and others. Weighing in at well over 100 lbs this Macklin Bible will ship in multiple boxes and will require additional fees for international delivery. Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin hardcover
176507820London from Sat. May 4 to Tues. May 7 1765 1765. Unbound. Folio vol. XVII No.1307 pages 433-440. News of interest about Great Britain and elsewhere including "For Gout and Rheumatism" sections on "To Be Sold" and "To Be Lett" and marriages. Very good with light soiling to front page. <br/><br/> unknown books
176507818London from Tues June 25 to Thurs June 27 1765 1765. Folio vol. XVII No.1329; pages 609-616. News of interest about Great Britain and elsewhere including an article "An Experiment to make Potatoes thrive without Dung" by Mr. Tichiffeli. On final leaf are some stock prices Christenings numbers of dead by disease and by casualty. Very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
