(Bible, English)

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations

Engraved frontispiece, 9 copperplates; unpaginated [1144 pages]. Folio, Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1769-1772. Second Baskerville Bible, with first state title-page (dated 1769). Full contemporary mottled calf, gilt; rubbed and scuffed, some offsetting from plates, light soiling throughout, previous owner's note affixed to front pastedown, else a handsome, sturdy copy.

The second edition of Baskerville's masterpiece, following the 1763 first edition. Issued in parts, this copy retains the first-state title page, dated 1769 Gaskell 35; Pardoe p. 105.

Item #238782       Price: $5,000.00