THE BIBLE DESIGNED TO BE READ AS LITERATURE EDITED BY ERNEST SUTHERLAND BATES CA.1930 FINE BINDING
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[BATES, Ernest Sutherland (Editor)]. The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Published by William Heinemann Ltd., London, n.d. [ca. 1930].
First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Thick octavo (235 x 150 x 60 mm.). Pp. xxxi, 1237, [1]. English text, edited and arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Bound in full crushed morocco by Bumpus (their gilt stamp to rear turn-in), gilt titles and tooling to covers. All page edges gilt. Map endpapers. Half-title present. Title-page in red and black. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure, however, the upper joint as a slight crack which has been crudely repaired. Some mild rubbing to extremities, covers otherwise nicely preserved. Interior largely clean, else for some foxing to endpapers. Neat inscription to fep dated 1934.