Apocrypha Authorised Version, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume IV (of five) only. 425pp. Fine in a spine-toned very good or better dust jacket with a "Cambridge Books" price label on the spine (as issued?) and two creases on the upper flap.

Original Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Rene Ben Sussan, M E Groom, Eric Jones, Wladislaw Skoczylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, D Galanis (illustrator). Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION. Limited edition of 450 copies, of which this copy is numbered 310, 14 full-page wood engravings, p181 has been torn at the top corner and neatly mended (see photo), otherwise pages clean and crisp, top edge gilt, nice and bright, original vellum, lightly worn and marked, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, some scuffs to this. Printed at the Curwen Press, published by the Cresset Press, London With wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Rene Ben Sussan, M E Groom, Eric Jones, Wladislaw Skoczylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, D Galanis PLEASE NOTE: THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK MAY COST EXTRA TO SHIP OUTSIDE OF THE UK. Size: Larger Quarto. Illustrated Religious Writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, printed at the Curwen Press and limited to 450 numbered copies on mould-made paper, plus a further thirty deluxe copies (this one of the 450 examples, but un-numbered). Large 4to. 406pp. Bound in full brown buckram with two red leather spine labels, lettered and bordered in gold (this binding unusual as the 'correct' binding should be white vellum; the fact that this example is un-numbered may suggest that it was intended as a trial or proof copy, or perhaps a file copy). Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. A touch of very light spotting to the edges and endpapers, and to very occasional leaf margins. Backstrip ends very gently rubbed. A very good copy of an uncommon and quite delightful production: a tour-de-force collaboration featuring some of the finest wood engravers of the post-Great War period, each one tackling one of the fourteen books classified as apocryphal by the King James Bible.