Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

H I S T O R Y , P H I L O S O P H Y & R E L I G I O N B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E 216 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) “If Everything Else In Our Language Should Perish, It Would Alone Suffice” BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing theOld andNewTestaments. London, 1773. Thick quarto, contemporary full red calf gilt. $4800. View on Website 1773 edition of the magisterial King James Bible, “the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world” (Campbell, 1), handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. “Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart” (Campbell, 275). Macaulay praised it as “a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power” (PMM 114). With Apocrypha. With separate New Testament title page dated 1772. Family record opposite New Testament title page. Scattered light foxing. Contemporary calf gilt binding attractive with light expert restoration, expert repair to front joint, later endpapers.