“IF EVERYTHING ELSE IN OUR LANGUAGE SHOULD PERISH, IT WOULD ALONE SUFFICE…”: 1826 OXFORD KING JAMES BIBLE, IN HANDSOME FULL CONTEMPORARY BINDING
BIBLE. The Holy Bible. Oxford: Samuel Collingwood, 1826. 16mo (3 by 5-1/2 inches), contemporary full straight-grain black morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $1850.
Handsomely bound 1826 Oxford pocket-sized edition of the King James Bible.
First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. Macaulay praised it as "a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power" (PMM 114). Does not include Apocrypha. Contemporary owner signature.
Scattered light foxing to text and endpapers, contemporary morocco handsome. An attractive pocket Bible.