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BIBLE, English. The Old [New-] Testament. London: Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800.
6 volumes, 2o (462 x 374 mm). Half titles, volumes one and 5 with engraved titles, engraved dedication, numerous engraved vignettes, and 70 engraved plates (including 2 engraved frontispieces in volumes one and 5). (Spotting and browning throughout, a few footnotes shaved affecting text.) Contemporary blue straight grained morocco, covers tooled with drawer handle border, spines in 7 compartments with 6 double raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt by C. Hernig (light overall rubbing or scuffing). Provenance: George Baird Stichill (bookplate).
Macklin's sumptuous edition printed in a large and beautiful type by Bensley and "embellished with engravings, from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artist." (6)
6 volumes, 2o (462 x 374 mm). Half titles, volumes one and 5 with engraved titles, engraved dedication, numerous engraved vignettes, and 70 engraved plates (including 2 engraved frontispieces in volumes one and 5). (Spotting and browning throughout, a few footnotes shaved affecting text.) Contemporary blue straight grained morocco, covers tooled with drawer handle border, spines in 7 compartments with 6 double raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt by C. Hernig (light overall rubbing or scuffing). Provenance: George Baird Stichill (bookplate).
Macklin's sumptuous edition printed in a large and beautiful type by Bensley and "embellished with engravings, from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artist." (6)