BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London: G. and W. Nichol for John Reeves, 1811. [ With :] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. London: C. Whittingham for John Reeves, n.d.
BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London: G. and W. Nichol for John Reeves, 1811. [ With :] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. London: C. Whittingham for John Reeves, n.d. 2 volumes, 12 o (148 x 96 mm). Frontispiece and 11 engraved plates. Green straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with gilt roll border enclosing a large gilt-tooled cathedral design, spines in two compartments each with a gilt-tooled cathedral design, gilt-tooled turn-ins, pink silk doublures and free endpapers, gilt edges concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of PALM SUNDAY ( Bible ) and THE LAST SUPPER ( Book of Common Prayer ) (lacking silk from upper endpaper of Bible , two leaves loose from gutter of Bible , text block completely detached from binding in the Book of Common Prayer , light rubbing to extremities of each volume); matching contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco-covered wooden box with crimson velvet lining, broken. Provenance: J.P.H. Somerset (early ink signature); Estelle Doheny (her sale Christie's 17 October 1988, lot 1293). (2)
BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London: G. and W. Nichol for John Reeves, 1811. [ With :] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. London: C. Whittingham for John Reeves, n.d.
BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London: G. and W. Nichol for John Reeves, 1811. [ With :] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. London: C. Whittingham for John Reeves, n.d. 2 volumes, 12 o (148 x 96 mm). Frontispiece and 11 engraved plates. Green straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with gilt roll border enclosing a large gilt-tooled cathedral design, spines in two compartments each with a gilt-tooled cathedral design, gilt-tooled turn-ins, pink silk doublures and free endpapers, gilt edges concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of PALM SUNDAY ( Bible ) and THE LAST SUPPER ( Book of Common Prayer ) (lacking silk from upper endpaper of Bible , two leaves loose from gutter of Bible , text block completely detached from binding in the Book of Common Prayer , light rubbing to extremities of each volume); matching contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco-covered wooden box with crimson velvet lining, broken. Provenance: J.P.H. Somerset (early ink signature); Estelle Doheny (her sale Christie's 17 October 1988, lot 1293). (2)
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