Description
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations.
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1769-1772.
Folio. Engraved frontispiece and nine copper-plates. [1144] pp., unpaginated.
Full early contemporary or slightly later binding. Gilt spine with raised bands, elaborately tooled,
The second edition of Baskerville’s masterpiece, following the 1763 first edition.
Gaskell 35; Pardoe p. 105.
