Baskerville, John (printer)
The Holy Bible
£404
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1769-71. Folio (41 x 25.5cm), contemporary reversed calf, decorative blind panels to sides, sigs. A-13K2 (-13K2, cancelled), ownership inscription of one Richard Eaton dated 1792 to front free endpaper, related 19th-century family genealogy to pastedowns and endpapers (commencing with Richard Eaton, 'a most estimable man in every social relation and of unshaken probity [who] died at Ashover [Derbyshire], 1842 [...]', tear to head of spine, old paper reinforcement to title-page just touching periphery of calligraphic text 'Original Tongues', slightly browned [ESTC T93103, 'sometimes found with engravings'; Herbert 1210], together with 3 others (these not collated: Ofspring Blackall, The Works, 1723, first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece; Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, 1683, first edition, 2 volumes, folio, later reversed calf, lacking portrait, water-damage to front of volume 2; Copper-Plates delivered with the First Fifty Numbers of Howard's New Royal Encyclopaedia and Cyclopaedia, c.1790, folio, contemporary quarter calf, engraved plates)
Footnote
Note: First Baskerville edition of the Bible printed at Birmingham; he had previously produced editions at Cambridge while printer to the university.