A beautifully bound Arts & Crafts bible, with fine bibliophilic provenance. Octavo. Finely bound in full brown crushed morocco by Sangorksi & Sutcliffe for J.W. Robinson. Spine lettered gilt, five raised bands with fillets on both sides, leading to trefoils, compartments with gilt double-rules. Covers decorated with double gilt rules divided by a blind roll, with an ivory cross to the upper cover. Gilt rules and binder’s signature to turn-ins. Patterned fabric endpapers. Two orange pagemarkers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box, lettered gilt to the spine.
 
A fine example. Old, typewritten catalogue description loosely laid in.
 
PROVENANCE: Daisy May Anderson, née Betzold (1879–1971), with her ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso. She was the sister of Carrie Estelle Doheny, the noted Los Angeles philanthropist and collector, especially of Bibles; Monsignor Francis J. Weber (1933-), archivist to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; gifted to Stephen C. Massey, English bibliophile, who received this book as a gift from Msgr. Weber following the Doheny sales of 1987. With his small booklabel and annotation to this effect to the front free endpaper verso.
 
A beautiful Bible, bound in an Arts and Crafts style.
 
This book has an ivory exemption registration GQL3R7TR.