The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler From Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters. The Letter Press By Thomas Bensley. .

EXCEPTIONAL THREE VOLUME 1795 BIBLE, WITH LOVELY ENGRAVED PLATES

The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler From Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters. The Letter Press By Thomas Bensley. .

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Item Number: 131983

London: Published by R. Bowyer and J. Fittler, 1795.

First edition of James Fittler’s “Cabinet Bible,” beautifully illustrated with engraved calligraphic title pages and 64 engraved plates after Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyck, Correggio, Poussin, and other Old Masters. Quarto, three volumes bound in full calf, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with some toning throughout the text. Uncommon.

The Bible has had an unprecedented influence on literature and history, especially in the Western World, where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed using movable type. Commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James I and VI, the King James Version of the bible, or Authorized Version, includes the 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of the Apocrypha, and the 27 books of the New Testament. Noted for its "majesty of style", the King James Version has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world. It was first printed by John Norton and Robert Barker, both holding the post of the King's Printer, and was the third translation into English approved by the English Church authorities. The first had been the Great Bible, commissioned in the reign of King Henry VIII (1535), and the second had been the Bishops' Bible, commissioned in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1568). In Geneva, Switzerland the first generation of Protestant Reformers had produced the Geneva Bible of 1560 from the original Hebrew and Greek scriptures, which was influential in the writing of the Authorized King James Version. This "Cabinet Bible" was the first to feature engraved plates by James Fittler, the distinguished 18th-century artist, an associate of the Royal Academy and marine engraver to George III; letterpress by Thomas Bensley. With the famous misprint "Let the children first be killed" (instead of "filled") at Mark vii, 27. Herbert 1394. Darlow & Moule 961.

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