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Thanks Pedro, that’s helpful as regards the Boulton owned Baskerville Bible. What a wonderful item with its Boulton family annotations. Good to hear it was bought through the collaboration of several Birmingham organisations and is now permanently in the Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham University.
Be good to find out if there still is/was another Baskerville print of the Bible at St Phillips.
Below is from the newsletter of the Baskerville Society , which states that there were 1250 copies of the bible produced, of which the copies whose existence is recorded is 119. Apparently the University of Birmingham library has 5 copies