Religion

2 volumes. Folio (v1: 419 x 260mm; v2: 406 x 260mm). 1st hot-press edition of the Bible printed in America. With frontis in vol 1. Without list of subscribers in vol 2. Lacking final blank in volume 1. Hills 62. Sabin 5182. Contemporary full marbled calf, with marbled endpapers. Light wear, upper 3' of front joint of volume 2 starting. Offsetting to title page of volume 1 from frontispiece. Some foxing, primarily to prelims, with mild soiling throughout. Occasional staining to margins. VG. THE SET:

4to. 1st edition. Rebacked with original boards; front board stamped armorial of The Society of Writers to the Signet. Toning to leaves; foxing to prelims and title page; glue-burning to margins of endpapers; ex-libris label at front pastdown. Over-opening at hinges. Scratching to boards, rubbing to edges, wear to fore-corners; inch tear to backstrip at upper front joint. VG.

8vo. Full leather. A.e.g.; with fore-edge painting of Christ in prayer. Light wear to spine ends; rubbing to raised bands and extremeties of boards; light wear to fore-corners of boards. Glue burning to endpapers. A little toning to leaves. VG.

8vo. Fore-edge Painting. Full black crushed morocco, with Jesus Hominum Salvator emblem in gold ornamented green red and gold onlay at gold fillet framed boards; gold fillet turn ins. Some rubbing to extremeties of covers. Bookplate of William Lowndes Esq. Chesbam at front board. Some rubbing to margins of marbled endpapers. Occasional foxing to leaves. VG.

(1974). 4to. 3 volumes. 1st edition, trade issue. Includes text, score, and box containing 4 cassettes. With original publisher's advertisement laid-in. Foxing and slight edgewear to wrappers of musical score. Staining to front of patterned cloth of text volume. Fraying to edges of cassette case. Contents clean. Lacking box. VG/--.

Folio. Full calf. Henry Benau's Armorial binding(according to previous owner's pencil note at front blank). Text in Latin. Joints tentative, especially front board. Spine ends chipped; backstrip torn and glued to spine, though detached at upper and lower bands. Some scratches and scrapes to boards, rubbing to edges. Lacking free endpapers. Early ink note at top margin of front blank. VG.

(London). (1820). 12mo. A.e.g. with fore-edge painting of a London city street. Full straight-grain morocco decorated in gilt. Mild rubbing to boards, with spots of wear to extremities. Front hinge just starting. Decorative bookplate to front paste-down, with inscription from previous owner (dated 1821) on first blank. VG.

Three volumes, housed in printed cardboard box. 4to. Minimal edgewear and rubbing to extremities. Minor nicks to box. NF, NF in wrappers in NF box. THE SET:

9 volumes. 8vo. Eigth and seventeenth editions respectively. Light rubbing to joints and edges of boards, with mild chipping to spine head of a couple of vols. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper of each volume. VG. THE SET:

8vo. Early vellum. w/ frontis engraving by Arnold Van Westerhaut. Chipping to tail of spine, some wear to corners. Binding cracked. Early ink inscription to first blank, half-title, and title page. Staining affecting upper outer corners of several leaves at end. Some occasional staining along top edge throughout. VG.

Folio. Covers detached. Mere vestiges of leather as rubbed to board, brown paper affixed to spine and margins of boards adjacent to joints; heavy wear to fore-corners of boards. Toning, some foxing, occasional holes to leaves. Sold-As-Is. Fair

8vo. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 500 copies. Quarter leather. Top edge gilt. Negligible rubbing to bottom edge of covers. Minor rubbing to publisher's unprinted clear acetate d.j. Mild rubbing to slipcase. Bright copy. NF/VG in VG slipcase.

4to. Full early calf. Toning, oaccasional foxing to leaves, some dog ears; a charred narrow inch to several leaves near upper fore-corner of text block. Previous owner's name pencilled to front blank; small letters of the alpahabet inked to front paste down; half of rear balnk missing. Amateur but functional repair to spine ends and a few inches along upper rear joint, blends well with spine. A little wear to fore-corners of boards. VG.

(Religion and Reason, Volume 46). 8vo. Minor bumping to edges of cloth. NF/--.

8vo. Text in German. Bound in full leather with shallow embossed decoration to front cover. Metal clasps at fore-edge (one broken). Joints somewhat worn and reinforced. General rubbing and edgewear to binding, with chipping to tail of spine. Previous owners' names to first blank. Minor staining and shallow chipping to margins of first and last few leaves; foxing to leaves throughout. Long closed tears to first two pages of text. Good.