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Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible. The Holy Bible: Containing The Old And New Testaments, With Explanatory Notes, References, And A Condensed Concordance. Illustrated With More Than Nine Hundred Highly Finished Engravings.
London, Paris, And New York. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin 1870 Morocco Very Good Book Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Gustave Dore
A very impressive Victorian family Holy Bible. Not dated. c. 1860's-1870's. Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible. With over 900 engravings. Large, thick, folio sized family Bible - 12.75" x 9.5" x 4.5". Full title reads: "The Holy Bible: Containing The Old And New Testaments, With Explanatory Notes, References, And A Condensed Concordance. Illustrated With More Than Nine Hundred Highly Finished Engravings. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin. London, Paris, And New York." This is a king size Bible measuring a very grand 12.75" x 9.5" x 4.5". It contains more than 900 highly finished engravings - in colour and black and white, many by the renowned illustrator Gustave Dore. It is bound in rich black morocco leather. With a double gilt filet border, and inner gilt border of leaves, berries and scrolls to the front and back covers. With five raised bands to the spine with gilt title holy bible, in the second compartment. Even though it is such a large Bible it is quite easy to open and read as it has been specially bound so that the pages can be opened out completely. The pages are all edged in gilt. With gilt decoration to the inner turn-ins, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. The texts have been sumptuously embellished with hundreds of engravings, including a number of full colour lithographs by famous artists, including Gustave Dore, unquestionably the most celebrated 19th-century French illustrator. As the introduction states "The numerous engravings were all executed by eminent British and Foreign artists. They include views of cities and other localities mentioned in the text, and illustrations of the manners and customs and natural productions of the East. The various maps have been prepared with care from the best authorities" The Chronology of the Bible, a four page list of all the illustrations and a 2 page list of descriptions of the illustrations of antiquities follow the coloured frontispiece and engraved title page. The initial capitals are beautifully decorated at the start of every chapter. There is a decorative page for family register/portraits that has never been filled in. The New Testament title page reads: "The New Testament Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ With Critical And Explanatory Notes; And References Illustrated With Numerous Highly Finished Engravings. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin. London Paris And New York" After the New Testament comes the Concordance to the Bible. This Bible is in very good condition. The Bible at some point was professionally rebacked, with the original spine laid down. There is some rubbing to the cover and edges of the black morocco, and a 2cm chip to one of the raised bands on the spine, gilt title on spine very dull. The internal condition is generally very clean throughout, a few spots to first and last few pages, a few faint spots to margins of pages here and there, other than this the texts and illustrations are very clean and sharp throughout. There are 1688 pages in the Holy Bible, 1264 pages in the Old Testament and 424 pages in the New Testament, including the Concordance. 13139
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175.50 GBP
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Edited by Thomas Longman The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
London Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, London, 1865 1865 Ornate Decorative Buckram Very Good No Jacket Book 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Barolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio, Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and others. Frontispiece, 59 single-page illustrations, and marginal ornaments, initial letters and medallions all engraved on wood by W. T. Green, J. Cooper, J. L. Williams, R. C. West, T. Williams, W. Linton, Messrs. Dalziel, A. Williams, W. Measom, F. Anderson, J. Thompson, and H. Shaw. 4to. 9 3/4 x 8 1/4" 540 pp. Original Indigo Burckram Cover lavishly decorated with multiple gilt borders and large flower and scroll corner pieces. Large ornate IHS gilt cross in the centre of the front and back covers and gilt titles and cross to the spine. All edges bright gilt, black pastedowns and endpapers. In very good condition with no loose pages, slight foxing to end papers, no inscriptions, a few faint marginal handling marks rubbing to the corners and spine edges, else very fine copy. Printed in Sepia, this superb New Testament contains numerous Full page engraved reproductions from drawings and paintings by the Italian Masters. With Ornate Initial Capitals, beautiful engraved Headpieces, tailpieces and central portions dividing the texts into two columns. The initial letters and all the decorative portions were designed by Henry Shaw and the figure illustrations drawn and engraved under his supervision. A beautiful New Testament. 11930
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