[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Shakespeare Head Press] The History of the Church of Englande

Bede, Venerable; Stapleton, Thomas (translator). The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, Broad Street Oxford, 1930. Limited to 475 copies, of which 450 were for sale. Printed on handmade paper. Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son with spine band tooling in blind extending onto the covers, terminating in a small tri-leaf stamp. Five bands to spine with title and author in gilt to second and third compartments. Blind-ruled turn-ins with brown, tan, and green marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Measures approx. 8" x 11.5". Some light edgewear and bumping to corners, several spots to front cover, light fading to upper edge of covers and spine.