The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I.
by Eric Gill
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"Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott ?Chaucer? A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill, the book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration"--Peter Bichsel Fine Books website."Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually show more compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott ?Chaucer? A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill, the book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration"--Peter Bichsel Fine Books website. show lessTags
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Eric Gill was a uniquely talented artist, today we are still using type faces developed by him. The slim commentary booklet reproduces a piece about the initial collaboration of gill and the golden cockrel press and also an interesting section about typography as done by eric gill.
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- The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I.
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- 1952 (Penguin Classics English translation) (Penguin Classics English translation)
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- The inclusion of the Gospels in the Penguin Classics series entails no new assessment of their literary, as against their spiritual importance.
Introduction, 1952.
THE FIRST WORD OF THE GOOD TIDINGS OF JESUS CHRIST SON OF GOD In accordance with the Scripture in the Prophet Isaiah, Behold I send my Messenger ahead of thee to prepare thy way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness '... (show all)Prepare the way of the Lord: make his paths straight', John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness proclaiming, for the forgiveness of sins, a baptism of repentance.
The gospel as recorded by Mark. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If each and all of them were written down I do not think the world itself could hold the volumes they would fill.
The gospel as recorded by John. - Original language
- Ancient Greek
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