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With
Book of Common Prayer [&] The English Version of the Polyglot Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments [&] The English Version of the New Testament
A Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century ' Silver Clasps 7 Corner Mounts', full green Morocco Leather Binding with designs & fore edge gold leafing
, clasps have Bagster stamps.
[BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [VELVET BINDING]. The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of The Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church… Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David… [&] The English Version of the Polyglot Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments [&] The English Version of the New Testament. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, ca. 1844.
Small octavo (5 9/16 x 3 1/2 inches; 141 x 88 mm.). Printed on India Paper. 16, 120, [vi], 586, [ii], 188, 72 pp.
Samuel Bagster the elder (1772–1851), was the founder of the publishing firm of Bagster & Sons. Bagster brought out "The English version of the polyglot bible" (with a preface by T. Chevalier), in foolscap octavo size, containing a selection of over 60,000 parallel references, mainly selected and all verified by himself. The book was extremely successful. Every detail in its production was superintended by the publisher, who introduced a new style of binding in the best Turkey Morocco, with flexible tight backs, the sheets being sewed with thin thread or silk. He also used prepared sealskins, which, with their ‘pin-head grain,’ were much admired. This is the 1844 edition,