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         HOLY BIBLE - DORE, Gustave (illustrator) .

Title The Dore Bible Edition De Luxe - The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testaments, According To The Authorised Version. With Illustrations By Gustave Dore.

Publisher London, Paris and New York: Cassell And Company Limited / Waverley Book Co. Ltd. Vulcan House, Ludgate Hill, [No date - C. 1870 ?]. 0

Seller ID 38396

The Dore Bible Edition De Luxe.

Special Issue of 485 Copies of which this is No. 260 . 2 volumes, with 238 full-page engravings . Thick folio. 38.5cm x 30cm x 10cm. [15" x 12" x 4"]. A very good high quality original full leather binding. Black calf over bevelled boards (1cm [or 0.25"] thick). With elaborate bright gilt decoration. Spine with 6 raised bands, gilt title, volume title, and gilt decorated compartments. All gilt decoration still clean and bright. Hinges carefully strengthened. Inner gilt dentilles. Marbled endpapers. All page edges bright gilt. All titles in red & black . Very clean English text in double columns. A little light foxing to the titles and margins of a few pages. Vol.1: Small ticket inserted before half title stating this in No.260 of a limited edition of only 485 copies; Clean family register; Old Testament; Genesis to Lamentations - pp.968. With 124 full-page engravings. Vol.2: Ezekiel to Malachi; Apocrypha; Esdras to Maccabees; New Testament; Matthew to Revelations - pp.4/p.969-1116/pp.188/pp.348. With 114 full-page engravings. All engravings clean and bright. An excellent set with super engravings. See Herbert: 1977 - "A folio Bible with the Apocrypha, printed between 1866 and 1871... Often reprinted." These are heavy books and there will be an extra charge made for overseas postage.

Price = 850.00 GBP

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