Coverdale Bible leaf book - Titus & Philemon
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Author: Wikgren, Allen P.
Title: A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Book Club of California
Date Published: 1974
Description:
Includes an original leaf from the Coverdale Bible, many other leaves in facsimile, including a fold-out. (Folio) original pictorial red and black cloth, plain dark maroon jacket. One of 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy.
The leaf includes the complete Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul unto Titus with heading to The Epistle of Apostle S. Paul unto Philemon on verso. It is one of the 57 leaves of "unusual typographical and historical interest" referred to in the laid-in letter from the publication committee of the Book Club of California. These special copies were made available to the club's Patron and Sustaining Members, and by lottery for ordinary members. The present leaf has a woodcut illustrating St. Paul writing and two historiated initials, in addition to the headings for the two epistles. BCC 145. Prospectus laid in.
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