1839 OXFORD KING JAMES BIBLE, IN FINE MOROCCO-GILT
BIBLE. The Holy Bible. Oxford: Printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood, 1839. 12mo, contemporary full burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spine, raised bands, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, decorative metal clasp and catch.
1839 Oxford edition of the magisterial King James Bible, impressively bound in contemporary full morocco-gilt with a decorative clasp.
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. "Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart" (Campbell, 275). It is probably the text most commonly found in decorative Victorian-era Bibles such as this one. Does not include Apocrypha. With a manuscript letter in ink explaining the provenance of this volume, dated 1906, laid in; armorial bookplate of the letter writer, John Ribton Garstin.
A handsomely bound, early Victorian Bible in fine condition.