1874 BIBLE GUSTAVE DORE LLUSTRATED 2 VOLUMES MASSIVE FOLIO antique 230 plates

La Sainte Bible...

2 volumes

 Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils; 1874

 Large , massive folio : 13.5 by 17"

Weight 34 lbs

with 230 engravings after Gustave Dore.


3 leaves, 909 columns. 
2 leaves, 948 columns, 1 leaf.

Original red cloth embossed decorated in gilt.

Spines restored, one volume with partially missing spine (pls see pictures)

See Leblanc pp. 48 ff. and Vicaire I, 475

 Some wear

Text in French
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This is arguably one of the most popular illustrated Bibles ever printed: the work was translated into at least 24 different languages, including Armenian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Yiddish, Hebrew, Finnish, Serbian, Croatian, etc.
It was even mentioned by Mark Twain in Chapter Four of Tom Sawyer when the author interrupts the narrative to enquire: ”How many of my readers would have the industry and application to memorize two thousand verses, even for a Doré Bible?”
Indeed, it is one of the very few Bibles which has always been known by the name of its illustrator.
”One indication of the significance of the Doré Bible illustrations is the fact that they have been and are still so highly praised and used by so many different groups. The Roman Catholic Church has never diminished its praise of these illustrations. The Dore illustrations were still featured in U.S. Catholic Bibles published in recent decades by the Daughters of St. Paul.
There were over 100 Protestant editions of the Dore Bible illustrations published in the U.S. in the last third of the nineteenth-century. Stories about the influence of the Dore Bible were legion. They were so popular that Dore expanded on them in enormous paintings which later filled the Dore Gallery in London. It was considered the greatest collection of religious paintings in the world”
(Malan, Doré, p. 85).
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