The King James Version of The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and the New Testaments Together with the Apocrypha Translated out of the Original Tongues in the Year 1611
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935-1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. 5 octavo volumes. 1 of 1500 sets published. Original blue cloth with gilt tooling on front and rear covers, gilt lettering on spines in original glassine jackets; housed in gilt paper-covered slipcase with white lettering on blue labels of spines. Blue edges. Decorative initials in red and black. Printed on specially made paper with a "Limited Editions Club" watermark.
Entire work printed especially clear without verse numbers for easier reading. Production and publication designed by George Macy, one of the founders of the Limited Editions Club in 1929 to produce elegant editions of classic as well as modern literature, and printed under the supervision of Julian E. Berla.
Some light wear of slipcases along edges and lightly rubbed. Glassines aged yellow and frail. Glassines with some chipping and medium to large closed tears, volume one glassine split down the spine. Else these books are in near fine to fine condition. Very good- to fine condition. Item #55022
Price: $650.00