A NEW FAMILY BIBLE. Containing the Old and New Testaments, with notes, illustrations, and improvements. Selected from the exposition of The Reverend Matthew Henry, by the Reverend E. Blomfield. -- Embellished with fifty beautiful engravings.












Book Description
TWO VOLUMES. 4to. (10.9 x 8.9 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with 50 steel engravings, mostly by Marillier. The title pages are not dated but most of the engravings are dated, with a few different years between 1834 and 1839. Many of the plates are foxed, but mostly to the blank margins of the leaves. Fine early bindings of full black calf. Spines with four wide raised bands, each decorated in gilt. Compartments triple ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards have a blind stamped decorative weave grain panel, within a gilt decorative panel. Decorative blind tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing to edges but overall a very good, highly attractive set
Author
BIBLE. Reverend Matthew Henry.
Publisher
George Virtue. London. Printed by John Childs and Son. Bungay. - No date. circa 1840's
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