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The Bible: Designed to be Read as Literature (three volumes)


Ernest Sutherland Bates (editor)


William Heinemann 1936

Binding:  Hardback  |  Condition: Good  | 

Handsomely rebound by Riviere and So. First edition of Bates' version of the King James Bible, arranged to be read in a more narrative, literary fashion. With 2 double page colour maps to rear, showing Syria and Palestine and the Mediterranean Basin. With an introduction by Lawrence Binyon Divided into three more manageable volumes. Quarter leather with raised bands. All edges gilt. 8vo. [xxxi] 1237pp. Rubbing to edges, a few marks and nicks to leather. Very light foxing to end-papers, toning to page edges. Else clean and tight. Good.

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