Doves Press.- English Bible (The), edited by Rev. F.H.Scrivener, 5 vol., [one of 500 copies on paper] printed by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, initials by Edward Johnston printed in red, light foxing to a few leaves at beginning of vol.1 in 'Translators to the Reader', handsomely bound in near-contemporary crushed burgundy morocco, gilt, by Stikeman & Co. of New York, covers with wide borders of multiple gilt rules, spines in six compartments titled & ruled in gilt and with five raised bands, dark blue crushed morocco doublures with borders of gilt rules and floral corner-pieces of inlaid lilac and red morocco, turn-ins of burgundy morocco edged in gilt dentelles and ruled in gilt, signed at foot of rear turn-ins, burgundy watered silk endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut, very very slight rubbing to joints but barely noticeable, folio, Doves Press, 1903-05.

⁂ A superb copy of the only folio printed by Cobden-Sanderson and the magnum opus of the Doves Press, described by Stanley Morison as representing "the finest achievement of modern English printing". Four Centuries of Fine Printing

Provenance: From the library of William Randolph Hearst, with his small paper shelf-label to head of rear endpaper. Sold as lot 99 in Part III of the sale of his collection at Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York in 1938 (price unknown). He also had a set in the original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery which sold for $175 the following year.