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Publisher's Dummy for Doves Press Bible 1903

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Title: The English Bible: Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues...
Author: **
Description: Volume II only. 13¼x9¼, full limp vellum. Publisher's Dummy from the limitation of 500 copies.Very rare and probably unique publisher's dummy of the Doves Press Bible, inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: "Dummy made for binding. T.J. Cobden-Sanderson." There are a large number of manuscript notes in the margins, in red and blue ink, intended for possible inclusion in the 5-volume Doves Press Bible, meant to be printed in gold lettering. There are also paragraph marks in the text in red and blue ink. A unique dummy from Cobden-Sanderson's Doves Press, indicating internal functioning of the press.
Heading: (Doves Press)Place Published: London
Publisher: Doves Press
Date Published: 1903