The Nonesuch Bible, one of 75 deluxe copies
The Holy Bible.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1924-27.
Price: $6,000.00
About the item
GOODEN, Stephen. Deluxe edition, one of 75 copies on Arnold unbleached rag paper, no. XXXIV. First vol. printed ad hominem for H. Malcom Hubbard, with ink note below, “Transferred to Ion Buchanan Pritchard, F. Meynell”. Each volume with an engraved title page, head piece, and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. 5 vols. Folio. Full brown crushed niger by Best with gilt rule borders and spine, relatively unadorned, raised bands, a.e.g. on the rough. Book ticket of Philip Duschnes. Ex-library with labels from General Theological Seminary Rare Book Room to front paste-downs of each volume. Faintest traces of rubbing to board edges, spines of vols. I & 3 slightly darkened from smoke, interior 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 #371052
One of the great early books of the Nonesuch Press, and Stephen Gooden's second book commission, after the Nonesuch Anacreon of 1923.
The copies on fine paper were offered at 5 guineas, bound in full niger or full vellum. The name of the subscriber was printed in the first volume; this copy, printed for railway magnate H. Malcolm Hubbard), bears a note from Francis Meynell recording the transfer to Ion Buchanan Pritchard (another railway executive).
Uncommon and attractive.
