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BIBLE, English. A Commentary on the Holy Bible: Comprising the Whole Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments; With Notes Explanatory, Historical, Critical and Practical. Bristol: William Pine, 1774.
Small 12o (135 x 78 mm). (Without the 6 leaves of Names and Titles given to Jesus at end as often.) Contemporary English red straight-grained morocco, spine with double-fillet and leaf tool borders, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, a repeated gilt-decorated panel in the remaining, edges gilt (some very minor wear at extremities). Provenance: purchased from the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, 10 December 1949.
The Preface states that "though there are several thousand notes, (and indeed more than in some folio commentaries,) besides the whole of the sacred text, yet through the smallness of the type, (it being the smallest a bible was ever printed with, and made on purpose for this work,) and the remarkable fineness of the paper, it is brought into a portable compass for the pocket; and must therefore be of peculiar use to those who wish daily to read the scriptures, abroad as well as at home, to edification." RARE: no copies of this appear in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Darlow & Moule 912.
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The Preface states that "though there are several thousand notes, (and indeed more than in some folio commentaries,) besides the whole of the sacred text, yet through the smallness of the type, (it being the smallest a bible was ever printed with, and made on purpose for this work,) and the remarkable fineness of the paper, it is brought into a portable compass for the pocket; and must therefore be of peculiar use to those who wish daily to read the scriptures, abroad as well as at home, to edification." RARE: no copies of this appear in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Darlow & Moule 912.