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Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. Royal folio, contemporary full red morocco extra, covers panelled in gilt, gilt-decorated spine, dentelles, all edges gilt with the binders ticket of Staggemeier and Welcher. A very nice copy.

With the third and most complete list of subscribers. “One of the most beautifully printed books in the world” (Dibdin). A Baskerville masterpiece, regarded as the finest and most important work from Baskerville’s Cambridge Press. The 1763 Bible was John Baskerville’s magnum opus and has been described by Reed as his “most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen”.
The Bible was printed in Baskerville’s Great Primer type, a handsome font distinguished by its slender and delicate form which combines both clarity and elegance. Gaskell declared that the title-page to the New Testament is “a perfect page of fine printing”.
Although the Baskerville Bible is now recognized as an artistic and typographical success, it was initially a finacial failure. £2,000 to print, and five years later almost half of the copies were remaindered to a London bookseller. The Cambridge Bible was Baskerville’s last great book; it drained him physically and financially, and after its completion his quest for typographical perfection waned considerably. If he had never printed anything else, this Bible would have assured him a permanent position among the foremost printers of the eighteenth century.

[Gaskell, John Baskerville #26. Darlow & Moule 857. Herbert, Historical Catalogue of Printed Bibles 1146. Huntington Library. A Bibliograpy, Great Books in Great Editions 6. Straus & Dent, Baskerville 65. Reed, History of the Old English Letter Foundries, pp. 267-288. Rumball - Petrie, Rare Bibles 145].