BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 8 03(DOVES PRESS). The English Bible. Containing the Old Testament & The New. Hammersmith, 1903-05. Five volumes. Folio (9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full green morocco gilt, custom boxes. $40,000 The Magnificent Doves Press English Bible, 1903-07, In A Superb Binding Featuring Ten Full Original Paintings On The Pastedown One of the landmarks of 20th-century printing: the magnificent Doves Press Bible, one of only 500 copies, extra-illustrated with ten prints and three original drawings, in a superb binding with each pastedown featuring an original painting by J. Vila. The Doves Press, founded in 1900 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, was one of the greatest of the private presses. Books printed at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity, “dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork” (Cave, 147). “When it is said that they [Doves Press books] approach dangerously near to absolute perfection in composition, presswork, and page placement, everything has been said. Their peculiarly
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