1772/71 Baskerville
$2,995.00
King James Version
OT Title: 1772
NT Title: 1771
Size: 17×11.5×3″
Font: Roman
Additional Features:
Re-issue of the 1769/71
Half Calf Marbled Boards
End Papers: Marbled
Appraisal Value: $9,500
In stock
Description
1772/71 Baskerville
[Bible in English.] The Holy Bible… with annotations … Birmingham: John Baskerville [General title dated 1772 and New Testament title 1771.
Folio.
The 1772 / 1771 issue of one of the most beautiful English Bibles ever produced, especially from a typographic viewpoint. With fine inserted engravings.
“Always regarded as Baskerville’s magnum opus, and his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen” (Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, p. 279, referring to the 1763 first issue folio).