The Holy Bible with the commentaries of Scott and Henry and containing also many thousand critical and explanatory notes selected from The Great Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries condensed, and the whole edited by the Rev. John Eadie, D.D., LL.D. Professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church.
London, C. & A. Ross, Limited, n.d. [c. 1890].
A delightfully illustrated Family Bible, containing both the Old and New Testament. With the original metal clasps in full working order.
Folio (33.4 x 25.5 cm); colour frontispiece, additional chromolithograph title, colour family register (partially completed), chromolithographs and steel engravings throughout, tissue guards, scattered light foxing; publisher's crushed morocco gilt, fielded relief to upper cover, blind panelled, gilt lettering to spine, spine blind tooled in compartments, decorated embossed brass corners and clasps, all edges gilt, an attractive copy.
Folio (33.4 x 25.5 cm); colour frontispiece, additional chromolithograph title, colour family register (partially completed), chromolithographs and steel engravings throughout, tissue guards, scattered light foxing; publisher's crushed morocco gilt, fielded relief to upper cover, blind panelled, gilt lettering to spine, spine blind tooled in compartments, decorated embossed brass corners and clasps, all edges gilt, an attractive copy.
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