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 217 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) Very Finely Bound 1813 Quarto Edition Of The King James Bible, Two Volumes In Elegant Contemporary Morocco-Gilt BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments… London, 1813. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full paneled straight-grain crimson morocco gilt. $5500. View on Website Distinguished 1813 quarto edition of the magisterial King James Bible, beautifully bound as two volumes in contemporary full straight-grain morocco-gilt. First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. This impressive quarto edition reprints Eyre and Strahan’s quarto edition of seven years earlier. “The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America recommended that this should be adopted as its standard edition”—despite the fact that its text “is very far from faultless”: for instance, Ephesians 4:16 reads “holy body” as opposed to the correct reading of “whole body” (Darlow & Moule 1035). Calligraphic contemporary owner inscriptions; family record in first volume. A beautiful Bible in fine condition.