containing the Old and New Testaments, with references, numerous critical and explanatory notes, and a condensed concordance. Illustrated with more than nine hundred highly finished engravings.
London and New York, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [mid-19th century].
A fine illustrated family bible according to the King James Version in contemporary diced blue calf.
Large 4to (32.5 x 25.5 cm); engraved additional title, over 900 engraved illustrations, including some full-page, family register partially completed in pen, morocco gilt bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary diced blue calf, gilt borders of floral sprays, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, slight wear to extremities, fine.
Large 4to (32.5 x 25.5 cm); engraved additional title, over 900 engraved illustrations, including some full-page, family register partially completed in pen, morocco gilt bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary diced blue calf, gilt borders of floral sprays, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, slight wear to extremities, fine.
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