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[BIBLE]. A New Biblia Pauperum containing xxxviii Pictures ...

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[BIBLE]. A New Biblia Pauperum containing xxxviii Pictures concerning the Life, Parables, Virtues & Seyenges of our Lord & Savyour Jesu Christ. Translated by John Wycliff (1328-1384). [London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1877]. 4to. Illustrated. Bound to style in modern full tan cloth, boards decoratively stamped in blind, brass clasps. Rebacked with later plain paper. Brass fasteners lacking. Binding worn, soiled, hinges just starting. Bookseller?s ticket on front pastedown, gift inscription on ffep. Facsimile edition, one of 287 copies signed by the Unwin Brothers (#198). This was printed to commemorate the Caxton Celebration in 1877; the original woodblocks were used to create these illustrations.