Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's Chosen People Before the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ Upon Earth, Written Anew for Children
Kelmscott Press. Mackail, J[ohn]. W[illiam]
Hammersmith. Kelmscott Press. 1892
The copy presented by Mackail to his Oxford colleague Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary.
From the edition limited to 200 copies on paper.
Mackail's presentation is to the front free endpaper in pencil: 'Gilbert and Mary Murray / from J. W. Mackail' [and beneath the additional presentation:] 'Given to Stephen & Margaret / Murray / 1935'.
Mackail's text, as indicated by the title, is a simplified form of the Old Testament opening with 'The Fall of the Morning Star' and concluding with 'The Vision of the Kingdom of the Saints'.
The Australian-born Oxford academic, leading classical scholar and principled Humanist, Liberal and anti-Imperialist, Gilbert Murray (1866 - 1957) was a close friend of Mackail, also a classical scholar, at Oxford (the Bodleian holds the letters Murray received from Mackail in the Murray archive) as the presentation attests. Murray married Lady Mary Howard (she inherited Castle Howard on the death of her mother in 1921) and the pair had five children, the youngest of whom, Stephen (a radical lawyer and farmer) later received the book from Mackail with an additional inscription to him and his wife, the architect Margaret Gillet.
[Peterson A9].
From the edition limited to 200 copies on paper.
Mackail's presentation is to the front free endpaper in pencil: 'Gilbert and Mary Murray / from J. W. Mackail' [and beneath the additional presentation:] 'Given to Stephen & Margaret / Murray / 1935'.
Mackail's text, as indicated by the title, is a simplified form of the Old Testament opening with 'The Fall of the Morning Star' and concluding with 'The Vision of the Kingdom of the Saints'.
The Australian-born Oxford academic, leading classical scholar and principled Humanist, Liberal and anti-Imperialist, Gilbert Murray (1866 - 1957) was a close friend of Mackail, also a classical scholar, at Oxford (the Bodleian holds the letters Murray received from Mackail in the Murray archive) as the presentation attests. Murray married Lady Mary Howard (she inherited Castle Howard on the death of her mother in 1921) and the pair had five children, the youngest of whom, Stephen (a radical lawyer and farmer) later received the book from Mackail with an additional inscription to him and his wife, the architect Margaret Gillet.
[Peterson A9].
pp. (i), viii, 249, (i). 8vo. (214 x 150 mm). Leaf with title, four leaves with contents, opening of Mackail's text with elaborate decorative border with decorative ten-line initial, decorative initials to each of the 200 chapters of Mackail's text, final leaf with colophon and Kelmscott device verso. Original publisher's stiff vellum with Yapp edges, four silk ties, gilt title to spine.
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