[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.
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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.