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Bibles Exhibition Checklist 4

Cases 1-5Cases 6-9Cases 10-14Cases 15-18

Case 15:

Bible. Old Testament. Psalms.

Psalmi Penitentiales
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894).
The text is a rhymed version of the penitential psalms found in the manuscript of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginus, c.1440, translated and edited by Frederick Ellis. The type is William Morris’s Chaucer.

The Psalms of the Singer David
(San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929).
Illustrated by William Wilke.

Psalmau Dafydd. Welsh.
(Newton, Montgomeryshire: Gwasg Gregynog, 1929).
Initial letters for this edition are by Horace Walter Bray.

Case 16:

Bible. New Testament. The Book of Revelation.

The Book of Revelation
The Aldine Bible. 4 volumes.
Wood engravings by Eric Gill.
(London: J. M. Dent, 1934-1936).

Eric Gill
"The Apocalypse"
Wood engraving for The Book of Revelation.

The Apocalypse: the Revelation of St. John the Divine
(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1982).
Woodcuts by Jim Dine. The type is Garamond Bold.
This livre d’artiste is part of a long tradition of artists illustrating the Apocalypse.

Case 17:

Bible. Old Testament.
The Book of Genesis
Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton
(Kentfield: Allen Press, 1970.

Case 18:

Texts illustrated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo

The Book of Ruth
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1926).

The Sermon on the Mount
(New York: The Golden Cross Press, 1935).

The Song of Songs Which is Solomon’s
(New York: The Heritage Press, 1935).

The Second Chapter of the Gospel According to Saint Matthew
(New York: The Golden Cross Press, 1936).

The Book of Jonah
(New York: Hammer Creek Press, 1960).

 
Past Exhibitions


Re-imagining the City of San Francisco, 1905-1915

Printing at Waldport

Peter Pauper Press Collection of Katheryn Fleming

Oscar Wilde

Landmarks of American Literary Modernism

Cranach Press Hamlet and Edward Gordon Craig

Recent Acquisitions

Marion and Gale Herrick Collection

A Typografic Discourse

The Passion of Christ

Bibles and Biblical Literature

Anais Nin: A Life in Letters

Expressions of the Heart

Thomas Bird Mosher

 
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