£200 - £300
Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and The New Testament; with The Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations, King James Version, two parts in one, second Baskerville edition, Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1769-71, first state of general title and second state of New Testament title, double-column, complete, collating: π¹ [A]-¹³L² ¹³K¹ a-e² d¹, printed on a couple of different paper stocks, signatures with alternating type setting, lower-right corners folded in places, illustrated with 10 engraved plates, two of which are tatty, browned, somewhat stained and loosely-inserted, contemporary panelled reverse calf over boards, rubbed, chipped, split and bumped, but holding, marbled endpapers, folio (43 x 28cm), [Gaskell Gaskell 35; Herbert 1210]
Provenance: Sophia Wheeler Born March 17th In Year of Our Lord 1769; recto endpaper with female manuscript ownership inscription, along with some pious sentiment.
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