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[1763 Mark Baskett Quarto] THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches
London: Mark Baskett, by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1763. Hardcover. Quarto, Sheepskin over boards, raised bands, gilt ruled panels and gilt stamped title. Dual column, versified, with concordance and tables in index.
Unpaginated. Collation complete: A-Uu4 (OT), A-K8 (Apocrypha); [1] A2-O4 (NT); A-E3 (Index).
Worn, leather peeling with some loss to extremities, spine gilt dulled, flyleafs missing, occasional worming to margins, creasing and rubbing to first and last outer pages, covers a bit loose but still holding on all cords.
Unsophisticated, unmarked, untrimmed. Sound copy, with eminently legible and bold type. GOOD. Item #2676
Mark Baskett is notable as the printer of an apocryphal 1752 Quarto Bible, now lost but purportedly the first Bible printed in America.
Darlow & Moule 1147.
Price: $750.00