Large Illustrated Folio Bible, late 1700s
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THE IMPERIAL FAMILY BIBLE… BEAUTIFIED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS. London: for the Proprietor and sold by Green and Co., n.d. (ca. 1790.) Inscription to ffe dated 1798. The second edition. Folio, 17" x 10.5". Period calf. Collates A-14S2 (complete text, including Apocrypha), WITH 50 FINELY ENGRAVED PLATES, including frontis. Full period marbled calf. ************ A very scarce folio Bible. We locate no other copies with this imprint, though it does seem to similar to ESTC T230022, which also ends on leaf 14S2 but was published for Wilkes in 1789 and issued in parts. The plates here bear the imprint of E. Beetham of London, with the exception of the frontis which bears the imprint of Green and Co.
Condition
Front board detached and binding with other small chips, scuffs and general wear. Frontis a endpapers detached, title and first few gatherings with some vertical creases, clean overall with only a few small stains in places, approx. 20 leaves with closed tears extending into text (mostly under 2" but some longer, mostly from lower margin.) A nice Bible, would benefit from
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Large Illustrated Folio Bible, late 1700s
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