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Gospels

Alexandre Bida

"HIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK AS AN ILLUSTRATOR": WITH 128 LOVELY FOLIO ETCHINGS OF EPISODES FROM THE GOSPELS BY ALEXANDRE BIDA

(BIDA, Alexandre, illustrator). The Gospel According to St. John. WITH: …Matthew. WITH: …Mark. WITH: …Luke. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1877. Four volumes. Folio (12-1/2 by 17 inches), original brown cloth, all edges gilt. $2800.

First English edition of this richly illustrated edition of the Gospels, with engraved extra title pages and 128 lovely folio etchings of scenes from the life of Christ by Alexandre Bida. Four folio volumes in the original cloth.

Painter Alexandre Bida (1813-95) studied under Eugène Delacroix, and he traveled and worked in Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East. As a Bible illustrator, Bida's Les Saints Evangeles first appeared in France in 1873. "His most important work as an illustrator is an edition of the Gospels (1873)" (Benezit, II: 23).

Infrequent foxing, chiefly marginal. A lovely, near-fine set in the original cloth.

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