The Gospels of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke & Saint John, together with the Acts of the apostles, according to the Authorized King James version, with reproductions of religious paintings in the Samuel H. Kress collection.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Gospels and Acts. English. 1959. Authorized.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Pictures, illustrations, etc.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 253 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 44 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 33 cm

Other Title:

Four Gospels and The Acts of the Apostles

Place of Publication:

New York : Arranged & printed by Richard Ellis for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, MCMLIX [1959]

Notes:

Half title page printed in red.

Title page printed in black, red and blue.

Plates are not included in the pagination.

"The purpose of this edition of The Four Gospels and The Acts of the Apostles, sponsored by Rush Harrison Kress and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, is to provide a volume for the spiritual enrichment and artistic enjoyment of the reader, and, accordingly, to become a significant educational contribution towards a fuller appreciation of religious art and literature. In the planning of this volume, particular consideration was given to arranging a format for pleasant reading, and equally to provide an appropriate page size for the numerous full-colour gravure reproductions of the painting selected from the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Religious Art."--Note about this edition.

"This Privately Printed Edition was Planned and Produced by Richard Ellis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy housed in slipcase.

OCLC:

2162264