The Most Beautiful American Bible Ever Printed The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, with Engravings and Signed by Barry Moser
Holy Bible.
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999.
illustrator]. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. PENNYROYAL PRESS. The Holy Bible. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999.
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[MOSER, Barry]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999.
One of 400 copies on Zerkall Bible paper, out of a total edition of 430 copies, this being number 98. Signed by Moser. Two folio volumes (15 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches; 400 x 280 mm.). Illustrated with relief engravings. The text follows the classic King James, or “Authorized” version, first published in 1611. The type is Galliard, designed by Matthew Carter, with the type pages composed and printed by Bradley Hutchinson of Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas. Combining traditional techniques of printing with modern technology, the computer-generated type is first rendered into polymer printing plates and then printed letterpress. The paper is Zerkall Bible, manufactured especially for this project and bearing the unique watermark of the Pennyroyal Caxton Press.
Original full vellum over boards by the combined studios of Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton, of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Front covers and spines lettered in gilt. A mint set of one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century fine bookmaking. Housed in two linen clamshell cases.
Barry Moser’s Pennyroyal Press is considered one of the most outstanding private presses of the second half of the twentieth century and has won much acclaim for its productions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and other works illustrated with Moser’s distinct engravings. With over thirty years of experience as an engraver, Moser has now produced the first edition of the Bible in this century with both the Old and New Testaments illustrated by a single artist. Working with a new medium known as resingrave, Moser has cut over 235 stunning illustrations and has overseen the integration of these engravings into each page of the page, in a process has termed the “struggle to engage not only a sacred text but the greatest monument of our language; to grapple with typography and images befitting such sanctity and monumentality; and to wrestle with the devils and angels that reside therein.”
HBS 69573.
$12,500.
Price: $12,500.00
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