“IF EVERYTHING ELSE IN OUR LANGUAGE SHOULD PERISH, IT WOULD ALONE SUFFICE…”: 1828 OXFORD KING JAMES BIBLE, IN HANDSOME FULL CONTEMPORARY BINDING

BIBLE. The Holy Bible. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood, 1828. 16mo (3 by 5 inches), contemporary full straight-grain dark green morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, all edges gilt. $2500.

Handsomely 1828 Oxford pocket-sized edition of the King James Bible, in a beautiful contemporary Regency binding.

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. 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). Does not include Apocrypha. Bookplate of Liverpool antiquarian and collector Matthew Gregson. Early annotations to endpapers.

Minor age-wear to morocco extremities. A very attractively bound copy in excellent condition.