A superior copy, one of 75
The Holy Bible.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924-7.
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
Gooden, Stephen. One of 75 copies on Arnold unbleached paper. Each volume with an engraved title page, head piece, and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. Printed at the Oxford University Press by Frederick Hall (The Apocrypha, Genesis to Ruth, and Samuel to Psalms) and John Johnson (Proverbs to Malachi and The New Testament). Typography by Francis Meynell. 329; 418; 327; 309; 238 pp. 5 vols. 4to. A superior copy, one of 75. Bound in full original vellum, edges rough gilt. Some natural variation of skins. Fine. Dreyfus 21 and 20. The Nonesuch Century 21 and 20. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, pp. 163-164, nos. 20 and 21. Rumball-Petre 125 ("a beautiful work of a famous press"). Tomkinson, p. 136, nos. 19 and 19a.
Item #315468
One of the great early books of the Press, and Stephen Gooden's second book commission, after the Nonesuch Anacreon of 1923.
A superior copy.
