Saucy to Princes
Gerald Hammond: The Bible, 25 July 2002
The Book: A History of the Bible
by Christopher de Hamel.
Phaidon, 352 pp., £24.95, September 2001,0 7148 3774 1 Show More
by Christopher de Hamel.
Phaidon, 352 pp., £24.95, September 2001,
The Wycliffe New Testament 1388
edited by W.R. Cooper.
British Library, 528 pp., £20, May 2002,0 7123 4728 3 Show More
edited by W.R. Cooper.
British Library, 528 pp., £20, May 2002,
“... more consideration here than do some of the run of the mill Authorised Version spin-offs, such as Thomas Macklin’s six-volume Bible published in 1800. Macklin’s doorstopper included 71 prints engraved from Biblical pictures by contemporary artists such as Joshua Reynolds, and so offers more to the aesthetic bibliophile than those versions that people ... ”