Holy Bible

1826. BIBLE. The Holy Bible. Oxford: Samuel Collingwood, 1826. 16mo (3 by 5-1/2 inches), contemporary full straight-grain purple morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt . $1750.Handsomely bound 1826 Oxford pocket-sized edition of the King James Bible.First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. Macaulay praised it as ""a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"" (PMM 114). Does not include Apocrypha. Interior fine, most minor wear to spine of contemporary morocco. A beautiful pocket Bible.