THE FOUR GOSPELS: The Gospel According to St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John.

Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Publisher's original quarter vellum and brown textured paper boards, with titles and cross decoration in gilt to the spine. Housed in tan paper covered slipcase, with titles pasted on spine. All edges deckled. Illustrated with five black and white woodcuts and elegant calligraphy throughout by Emil Rudolf Weiss. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the vellum bright and gilt fresh. Lightly toned to the top edge of the text block. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 1500 copies, from which this example is numbered 192, and signed by the designer and illustrator Emil Rudolf Weiss in red-brown pencil. Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Poeschel and Trepte in Leipzig, Germany. Emil Rudolf Weiss (1875-1942) was a renowned graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer, and is still recognised widely as one of the finest calligraphers of all time. His eponymous typeface Weiss-Initialen (1931) is used on the spine, most clearly shown by the rounded letter 'E', with his Weiss-Antiqua (1928) typeface then used throughout the text, identified by the seemingly inverted letter 'S', where the curve appears larger at the top than at the bottom.