[BIBLE].

The Holy Bible ...

with notes ... together with ... introductions, tables, indexes, maps, and plans; prepared and arrangsd by the Rev. George D'Oyly, and the Rev. Richard Mant ...

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107689

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1817

£12,500

A fine extra-illustrated Bible with engravings dating from the seventeenth century by Guercino, Cipriani, Rubens, Sadeler, Durer, Blake and others.

This edition was prepared for Archbishop Manners-Sutton. The editors were his domestic chaplains.

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8 vols, large 4to, (32.4 x 26.3 cm); extra-illustrated copy with the addition of over 800 engravings, mounted on thin card and bound in, plus the 56 issued plates and 8 maps, including mezzotints, stipple engravings, copper engravings and steel engravings (some folding, some two per page, a few in text), occasional light soiling to margins, very occasional offsetting; contemporary dark blue straight grained morocco gilt, covers with wide gilt borders of small tools with large fan-shaped corner devices, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, third and fifth, others richly gilt, broad raised bands gilt, all edges gilt, occasional ight rubbing, a very handsome set.