The Christian's new and complete Family Bible: or, Universal library of divine knowledge: being a clear, full, and comprehensive exposition and commentary on the Holy Scriptures [...]. Containing the sacred texts of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at large [...]. The whole forming a complete body of knowledge of Christian Divinity [...].

London, C. Forster and W. Cavill, 1788

€ 500 / 600

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3 parts in 1 vol., large folio (45 x 27 cm): [792-128-216] pp.; 26 pl. (clear damp stain in first 128 and last few pp., browning & spotting, sm. piece cut out of bl. margin f. 5X2, sm. tear in Apocrypha f. 2E1).

Mod. brown leather, spine with raised bands and black leather title label. Good copy.

Massive and rare English family Bible. Engr. ill.: front. and 26 full-page pl. (17 OT, 9 NT) coming from different series of Bible prints, signed a.o. Kirkall, Mynde, Thomassin, after a.o. Raphael, Cheron, Le Brun. Separate title for NT (Berwick, J. Taylor, s.d.).
Ref. BL. - Not in Darlow/Moule, Bibles Paris.