Biblia. Dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonyke-boeken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments [...].

12mo: 404-132 ff., 37 pl. (some soiling, endpapers and some pl. restored).

Contemp. black galuchat on wooden boards decorated with blind fillets, four chiselled corner-piecers on each board, two clasps with inscriptions engr. on the straps, chain attached to each board by a stapple with its chiselled plate, blind-filleted spine on raised bands, floral block-printed endpapers, all edges gilt and chiselled.

Nice clasps richly decorated with figures representing the four evangelists with their symbols on the clasp-plates, and two other figures (Moses and Aaron?) on the straps. The other silver pieces are more soberly designed with shells and fleurs-de-lys. A believer carried his bible in his hand or wore it on his arm - using the short or the long chain - to go to the Sunday service. Dutch edition of the Bible in its version agreed by the States-General, printed in Gothic types on two col., and ill. with 1 front. and 37 pl. The N.T. has its own title-page.
Bound with, same company of publishers: Het boek der Psalmen, nevens de gezangen bij de Hervormde Kerk van Nederland [...]. 1776. [196]-65-[7] pp. Coll. of Psalms with music scores and catechism.
Approbation of each work with printed coat of arms of the City of Amsterdam and ms. sign. of the censor Johannes Jacobus Kessler.
Ref. B. van Noordwijk - Zondags Zilver. Drie eeuwen versierde kerkboekjes. Heerenveen, 2006, num. 55, 56, 63, 78, 91, 94, 144a (similar bindings). - Not in Darlow & Moule.
Prov. "A.H. Spaans", "Anno 1781" (engr. mentions on clasps). - [Georges Petit].