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The Jerusalem Bible

The Jerusalem Bible

The Jerusalem Bible

The Jerusalem Bible

by (BIBLE)

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About This Item

London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1966.. "First Complete Edition". 8vo. xvi, 1547, (1), 498 pp., printed on india paper. Contemporary red half morocco over matching cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, all edges gilt, a prior owner's small discreet blindstamped device repeated to the two front endpapers. 6 pages of maps and plans, two in colour. A handsome copy. A new Catholic translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Latin, thus including the deuterocanonical books, was instigated by a Papal order in the 1940s and eventually appeared in French in 1956. This copy comes from was first English translation, taken largely from the French with occasional recourses to the original texts. One of the notable features of the work is that J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the translators, producing the translation of the Book of Jonah.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
45045
Title
The Jerusalem Bible
Author
(BIBLE)
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London: Darton, Longman & Todd
Date Published
1966.
Keywords
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Bow Windows Bookshop

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Lewes, East Sussex

About Bow Windows Bookshop

Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association

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New
A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Device
Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Raised Band(s)
Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

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