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Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible

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Title: A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman
Author: [King James Bible]
Description: Essays by John Livingston Lowes & Louis I. Newman. 15½10½ cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.Prospectus laid in. Inscribed by Albert Bender, Chariman of the Book Club of California Publication Committee and with a typed letter from Bender laid in. With an original leaf from I Corinthians Chapter XVI & II Corinthians, Chapters I with 2 woodcut initials. The book printed in red and black with hand-illuminated initials. The leaves "are from an incomplete copy of the rare first edition of the King James Version, the famous "He" Bible of 1611. Set in double columns & printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...". GB 275.
Heading: (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book)Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: 1937