Frontispiece stating:
The Historical Part of the Holy Bible or the Old and New Testament.
Exactly and Completely Describ'd in above Two Hundred Historys curiously engraved by J.Cole from designs of ye best Masters.
Sold by Richard Ware
Title page stating:
The Holy Bible
Containing the Old & New Testaments, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues
Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, Oxford, 1736
Extra title page stating:
Sacred Geography, contained in Six Maps
Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1725
Title page for the New Testament stating:
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Printed by John Baskett, London, 1735
Title page for the Concordance stating:
A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation
Fully perused and enlarged by John Downtime
Printed for R.Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster Row, 1732
More recent red leather covers which remain in very good condition.
Internally the pages are generally in very good condition throughout. Some age toning and marks in places with some edge tears and repairs.
With 200 vignettes on 50 plates (4 vignettes per plate). One plate seems to be missing (containing vignettes 125-128).
The six maps are loose and have varying degrees of tears and repairs - photographs of all the loose maps are shown in the photographs in this listing.
The title page to the New Testament has some loss and repairs to it.
There are some pen inscriptions at the end of the volume and some pencil annotations in the Psalms section.
A scarce, extensively illustrated, edition.
Herbert 1032.
Size approx: 25cm x 20cm (10" x 8")
See photographs for further confirmation of condition.
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