Item #22029 The Making of the King James Bible. Edwin Eliott Willoughby.
The Making of the King James Bible
The Making of the King James Bible
The Making of the King James Bible

The Making of the King James Bible

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1956. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Item #22029

Folio. 31,(3)pp. Finely printed at The Plantin Press by Saul and Lilian Marks. Gray cloth spine, gilt; gray paper over boards with a printed vignette on the upper board. Leather bookplate of H. Doolittle, Pasadena, on the front pastedown, which has offset to the facing page.


A monograph, with comparisons fomo the Bishops Bible and the manuscript annotations of 1602, with an original leaf from the great "She" Bible of 1611. The original leaf is from the New Testament, Matthew, chapter VIII, 18-34; chapter IX, complete; and chapter X, 1-2. It is in fine condition. One of 290 copies.


DIsbound and Dispersed, 113.

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Price: $1,000.00

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