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FINE BINDING - THE "VINEGAR" BIBLE] The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And Hath the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717-1716. Commonly known as the "Vinegar Bible" for the misprint "vinegar" instead of "vineyard" in the running head of Luke 20. Two volumes, bound in contemporary dark-blue goatskin, gilt border of a semi-circular roll with two panels of floral rolls, triangular and lozenge shaped floral tool at the corners, clusters of volutes along the outside of the outer panel and a lozenge of volutes in the centre; spine divided into nine panels, lettered in the second, the others tooled with gilt centre and scroll corner tools, comb-marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. 21 x 13 3/4 inches (54.5 x 36 cm); unpaginated (full collation on request), engraved frontispiece by Du Bose after Thornhill, vignettes on the title and throughout the text, title printed in red and black, decorated initials, ruled in red throughout; unpaginated. Joints discreetly repaired at the head and foot, with the bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton (presumably the fouth Baronet), Phil[icia?] Cotton, and William Charles Smith. A magnificently printed Bible, due to the errors to the text this has been long been referred to punningly as the "Baskett-ful of Errors," after the printer. This especially fine set was offered in Maggs Bros., catalogue 1212, Bookbinding in the British Isles, as item 86. They noted that bindings from the workshop are known between 1715 and 1725, pointing to another copy of this Bible in a near-identical binding, illustrated in Mirjam Foot Studies in the History of Bookbinding p. 409. Darlow & Moule 942. C