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[BIBLE]. HEATH, Charles (1785–1848), illustrator. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments… Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood; [for White, Cochrane and co.], 1815. 2 volumes (of 3) only, thick tall 4to. 2 engraved additional titles (for the Old and New Testaments), 29 engraved illustrations in text by Charles Heath after drawings by Richard Westall (foxing to titles and plate margins). Early full plum straight grain morocco double framed in gilt tools, raised bands with gilt fillets, elaborate gilt scrollwork in compartments, all edges gilt, dentelle turn ins, marbled endpapers, period booksellers’ ticket from Richard Westall (light shelf wear at ends). Provenance: Henry George Smith (from his library with a partial genealogy in his holograph in Vol. I). The first two volumes of the King James version of the Bible in a superb binding.