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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorised Version / with illustrations by Gustave Doré.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio BS185 1866 .L6 Rudolph Doré Collection copy v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. English. Authorized. 1866
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Pictorial illustrations.
- Bible.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rudolph, Robert I., M.D. (donor) (Rudolph Doré Collection of Gustave Doré copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 39 cm
- Other Title:
- Apocrypha t.p.: Ancient writings commonly attached to the Old Testament scriptures, and accounted apocryphal
- New Testament t.p.: New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- Commonly known as: Doré Bible
- Place of Publication:
- London ; and New York : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [between 1866 and 1871]
- Contents:
- Volume 1. Old Testament: Genesis to Lamentations
- v. 2. Old Testament: Ezekiel to Malachi ; Apocrypha ; New Testament.
- Notes:
- "A folio Bible with the Apocrypha, printed between 1866 and 1871 ... Often reprinted."--Herbert.
- The Old Testament (1116 pages; 136 plates), Apocrypha (188 pages, 21 plates), and New Testament (348 pages, 81 plates) each has special title leaf, separate pagination and separate enumeration of plates..
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Rudolph Doré Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., C’67, M’71, GME’75.
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: volume 2 has a family register ([4] leaves) bound in after the Apocrypha.
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: each volume bound in full dark leather over blind-tooled, rounded-edge boards; 5 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; title ("HOLY BIBLE") volume number and abbreviated volume title, and "DORE'S ILLUSTRATIONS" stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled turn-ins; magenta silk doublures; all edges gilt.
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: volume 1: half-title torn and mended with clear tape at tail edge.
- Cited in:
- Herbert, A.S. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961, 1977
- OCLC:
- 45089746
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