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[FINE BINDINGS AND SETS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [WESTALL, Richard (1765-1836), after]. The Holy Bible... Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Bensley, Cooke a

Estimate: $400 - $600
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$200

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[FINE BINDINGS AND SETS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [WESTALL, Richard (1765-1836), after]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments , Translated out of the Original Tongues... Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood, 1815. 4tos. Illustrated in steel throughout with engravings by Charles Heath after designs by Westall. 3 volumes. Text in double columns. Contemporary full purple straight grain morocco, boards elaborately gilt-stamped and decoratively ruled in blind, spines ruled, tooled, and lettered in gilt in compartments, four raised bands, gilt turn-ins, later red endleaves, all edges gilt. STEREOTYPED EDITION, WITH BEAUTIFUL GILT DECORATIONS WITH THE "TETRAGRAMMATION" STAMPED IN GILT ON BOARDS. 

Condition

Bindings worn, joints cracking, some chipping to spines, text generally toned, some occasional foxing, text and plates offset. Good. 

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The Tetragrammation is a holy Jewish symbol, the four-letter name of God in Hebrew. Each volume with the bookplate of chemist, businessman, philanthropist, politician and bibliophile, Albert May Todd (1850-1931) on the fp.