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BIBLE | First Editions
As understood by both historians and followers of religion, the Bible is a collection of scriptures, written at different times in history. The Bible has contributions from various authors, and takes inspiration from a multitude of locations and landscapes. Jews and Christians consider the books of the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration, and receive the text as illustrative of the relationship between God and humans.Bound Bibles are the specialism of various dealers and bookbinders throughout the world. Widely considered to be the best-selling book of all time, the influence of the Bible upon literature and history is major - particularly in the West. The Gutenberg Bible was the first mass-printed book, whilst the standard edition was the first book ever printed using movable type.
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The Illustrated Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal References, of the Late Rev. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington: to Which is Appended, A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1838. [Bible] EARLY VICTORIAN BINDING. Small folio (34 x 24cm), pp.[12] xlii; 590 [2]; 256 [2]; 104; 54 [4]. Red full morocco to boards. Gilt tooling and blind ruling to lower and upper. Gilt titles and additional tooling to spine. Raised bands. Gilt interior dentelles..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Carefully and Diligently compared with the Original Greek, and the Several Translations of it: and Illustrated with Critical and Explanatory Notes, Extracted from the Writings and Sermons of the celebrated Grotius, Hammond, Stanhope, Whitby, Burkitt, and many other curious and Modern Annotators and Preachers.
London: Printed by R. Penny, 1736. [Annotated New Testament] FIRST THUS. Folio (40 x 28cm), pp.[2] 875. Final twenty pages misnumbered. Printed in two columns, with extensive notes below every small section of text. Original sewing and boards, with an extremely rough later nineteenth century covering of black leather-grain-effect cloth..... More
The Christian's Family Bible; or, Library of Divine Knowledge. Containing the Sacred Texts of the Old and New Testaments; with the Apocrypha, at Large. Illustrated with Short, but Suitable, Annotations, Historical, Chronological, Biographical, Geographical, Theological, Moral, and Practical. In which many difficult Passages are rendered clear, seeming Contradictions reconciled, and important Truths confirmed; calculated to dispel the Mists of Darkness, enlighten the Ignorant, encourage the Diffident, reclaim the Vicious, reconcile the Doubtful, lead the Wavering into the Paths of Truth, and implant in the Mind of every Reader that Divine Knowledge which is essentially necessary to Salvation. Being a Brief Explanation of the Various Books in the Old and New Testaments. And, as a Farther Illustration, will be given, a Chronological Index of Places mentioned in the Holy Scriptures; a Brief Account of the Apostles and their Successors, who propagated the Christian Religion, by presiding over the Apostolic Churches of Antioch, Jerusalem, etc. The Whole Forming a Body of Christian Divinity. Notes are selected from the most eminent and approved Authors, and are designed to assist plain Persons, who cannot purchase more expensive commentaries, in gaining Knowledge of Divine Truth. Embellished and Enriched with Engravings, illustrative of the various Transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings.
Liverpool: Caxton Press, printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, no date [circa 1840]. [Bible] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[2] 960 [2]. With 45 engraved plates by various artists, including an engraved frontispiece and a decorated title page. Plates dated variously between 1815 and 1839. Contemporary tan..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and Others.
London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1883. [Bible] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing thus. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.xvi; 540. With 60 wood engravings by the named artists, as well as ubiquitous marginal ornamentation. Publisher's brown cloth, heavily illustrated and titled in gilt, grey and black to spine and upper. Grey..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Translated out of the Original Greek; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1818. [New Testament] CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Very small octavo (9 x 5cm), unpaginated, containing the whole New Testament in very small print to thin paper. Contemporary horizontal-grained brown full morocco, with gilt titles to spine and extensive blind decoration all over. All edges gilt, with..... More
The New Testament, Of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and Others.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY. Post Quarto. pp. xvi, 540. With 60 wood engravings by the named artists, as well as ubiquitous marginal ornamentation. In full black morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Blind decoration to spine and boards. All edges..... More
The Offices According to the Use of the Church of England, for the Solemnization of Matrimony; Publick and Private Baptism of Infants; Churching of Women; Visitation and Communion of the Sick; and the Burial of the Dead. To which is now added, an Appendix, Containing useful Directions for the Due Discharge of the foregoing Offices, and other Articles relative to the Ministerial Function in general. [Also with 'Thanksgiving for Harvest' circa 1881].
Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and W. Dawson, 1795. [C of E Ceremonial Usage] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 102 [22]. The complete text, with appendix at rear. Main text numbered in heavy pencil as original pagination has been trimmed away. Thanksgiving for Harvest..... More
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