For Auction: 1613 King James Bible in San Francisco

ARTDAILY

Third folio edition of the King James Bible. Est. $12,000 - 18,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.

CALIFORNIA---As part of its October 10, 2012, Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, to be held in San Francisco with a simulcast in New York, Bonhams will offer several items of literary and historical importance. Among them is a unique, extra-illustrated copy of an early printing of the King James Bible, featuring a large, mystical fore-edge painting by 19th-century bibliophile John T. Beer, one of the great practitioners of the genre (est. $12,000-18,000). The third folio edition of 1613, the book later belonged to the collection of Alfred Sutro, noted collector and president of the Book Club of California, who, in 1938,[link]