BOUND FOR THE 1862 EXHIBITION
The english version of the polyglot bible; containing the old and new testaments...
London.
Samuel Bagster and Sons, [s.d., c. 1860]
8vo.
Finely bound in publisher's luxurious blind-decorated, gilt- titled brown morocco, gilt-metal corner bosses to beveled boards, gauffered edges, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, morocco label to FEP lettered in gilt 'FROM INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1862'. Lightly rubbed, gilt-metal clasp broken away and absent.
An exhibition quality Victorian Neo-Gothic binding executed by Bagster and Sons for display at the Great London Exposition of 1862.
The International Exhibition of 1862: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department (p.87), issued to accompany the event, states: 'The publishers of London show together in a collective case, where may be seen some of the most luxurious volumes produced by the leading houses. The reprint of the first edition of Shakespeare; the Bibles of Bagster and Spottiswoode, are also in this collection.'
Founded by Samuel Bagster the elder (1772-1851), who was succeeded in the by his sons Samuel Bagster the Younger (1800-1835) and Jonathan Bagster (1813-1872), Bagster and Sons was renowned in the early nineteenth-century for bringing a wealth of rare scholarly Bibles and Liturgical texts to the mass market, most notably Polyglot Bibles and reprints of early protestant translations by Tyndall, Wycliff and Cranmer. Their efforts in producing affordable (yet finely printed) versions of Biblical texts allowed the Bagsters to pioneer the avoidance of the monopoly printing of the Authorized version.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 32799
The International Exhibition of 1862: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department (p.87), issued to accompany the event, states: 'The publishers of London show together in a collective case, where may be seen some of the most luxurious volumes produced by the leading houses. The reprint of the first edition of Shakespeare; the Bibles of Bagster and Spottiswoode, are also in this collection.'
Founded by Samuel Bagster the elder (1772-1851), who was succeeded in the by his sons Samuel Bagster the Younger (1800-1835) and Jonathan Bagster (1813-1872), Bagster and Sons was renowned in the early nineteenth-century for bringing a wealth of rare scholarly Bibles and Liturgical texts to the mass market, most notably Polyglot Bibles and reprints of early protestant translations by Tyndall, Wycliff and Cranmer. Their efforts in producing affordable (yet finely printed) versions of Biblical texts allowed the Bagsters to pioneer the avoidance of the monopoly printing of the Authorized version.
