The Holy Bible
Subtitle: containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha
By: translated out of the original tongues, with annotations
Publisher: Printed by John Baskerville.
Published: 1769
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 572
Work titles: Bible English Authorized 1769
Notes: Signatures: [A]² ([A]1+X¹), B-Zz², 3A-13K²(-13K2[=X¹?]).

Issued in parts of 2 gatherings each, 1769-72; reissued as a single volume in 1772 with [A]² reprinted & t.-p. date changed to "MDCCLXXII."

Title-page of New Testament dated 1771.

The frontispiece & 9 plates were definitely issued as part of the work; included in this copy are 7 other plates, which may be as issued, but more likely are inserted from Boden & Adams's ed. of the Bible, also issued in parts in competition with Baskerville; inserted at end is the index (xxii p.) from the Boden & Adams ed.

Plates engraved by L.C. Legrand, Isaac Taylor, James Caldwell & others after J.M. Moreau, Francis Hayman, Carle van Loo and others.

Gaskell 35

Herbert, A.S. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961, 1210