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Title: | Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 49 |
Other Titles: | Baskerville Birmingham Bible |
Editors: | Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor |
Keywords: | Manuscripts;The Jessie L. Clough Art Memorial for Teaching;Leaves;Images;Ege, Otto F., 1888-1951 |
Issue Date: | 1954 |
Publisher: | Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections |
Abstract: | This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville. Baskerville, England’s greatest type-founder and printer, had announced his retirement from active printing the year before. He returned to the press, however, and hastily printed this folio Bible to compete with a crudely printed one issued by his most vituperative enemy, Nicholas Boden, and his former senior workman, Robert Martin. This Bible, although far inferior to his Cambridge Bible, was a financial success." |
Description: | Scanned by Doug Fetterman, Class of 2016, in 2014. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10267/24262 |
Appears in Collections: | Hanson Collection 1 - Pages from Famous Bibles |
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Ege_Famous_Bibles_49_1.jpg | 6.06 MB | JPEG | View/Open | |
Ege_Famous_Bibles_49_2.jpg | 6.02 MB | JPEG | View/Open |
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