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Lot Description

[BIBLES - FACSIMILES] A group of 5 Bibles in facsimile, comprising:

The First Printed English New Testament…Photo-lithographed From the Unique Fragment Now in the Grenville Collection, British Museum. London: n.p. 1871. -- Facsimile of the Bay Psalm Book. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. One of 1,000 copies. -- A second copy. One of 975 copies on plain paper. -- The Holy Bible, A Facsimile on a Reduced Size of the Authorized Version Published in the Year 1611. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911. -- JOHNSON, Henry Lewis. Gutenberg and the Book of Books. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. One of 750 copies. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, folio or smaller, all in publisher’s cloth or cloth-backed boards, condition generally good.

Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.

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