The English Bible : containing the Old Testament & the New / translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James the First and Now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F.H. Scrivener for the syndics of the University Press Cambridge.

v. IV. Apocrypha -- v. V.The New Testament

"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at The Doves Press No. 1,The Terrace, Hammersmith from the text of the late Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible by permission of the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge by whose Readers the proofs have been read. Compositors; J.H. Mason, J. Guttridge, C.F. Greengrass. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole, J. Ryan, T. Waller, A. Beaumont. Finished December 1902. Sold at The Doves Press, and by C.J. Clay & Sons"--Colophon v.1.

Vol. I has initials only in red, the other volumes in black and red. Some lines in Vol. I and II printed in red. each vol. has individual t.p.

Issued 1903-1905. Dates of printing: Vol. I, Dec. 1902; Vol. II, Oct. 1903; Vol. III, May 1904; Vol. IV, Sept. 1904; Vol. V, Oct. 1904. Cf. Tomkinson.

Vol. I: 394, [2] p. (page [2], 1st set and final p. are blank) ; Vol. II: 518, [2] p. (page [2],1st set and final p. are blank) ; Vol. III: 390, [2] p. (pages [1-12], [14], 1st set are blank) ; Vol. IV: 300, [2] p. (pages [1-12], [14] 1st set are blank) ; Vol. V: 307, [1] p. (page [2], 1st set is blank).

500 copies printed on paper and 2 on vellum.

Text printed on Batchelor laid pattern paper, watermarked with two doves, CS and EW.

Binding: limp vellum, spines lettered in gilt.

Tidcombe, M. Doves Press, DP6

Tomkinson, G.S. Modern presses, p. 54

Page 27 Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

The Alexander Turnbull Library copy is printed on paper with untrimmed edges; binder's stamp on lower pastedown of each vol.: "The Doves Bindery". Provenance: flyleaf inscriptions: "to C.H. St. John Hornby from Emery Walker June 1905"; slips tipped on to pastedowns: "From the library of C.H. St. John Hornby, Chantmarle, Dorset". Purchased in Dec. 1947 from Bernard Quaritch (cf. Alexander Turnbull Library Purchase Book Apr. 1944, 20 Dec. 1951, q MS-0040). Acc. 131714-131718.

Digital image available: v. 1, p. 27, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.