1855 The Comprehensive Family Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

A scarce mid nineteenth century edition of the Authorised Version, this is an early example of David Davidson's scarce illustrated edition of the Bible.

Bound in two handsome full calf bindings, with blind tooling. Volume I runs from Genesis to Songs of Solomon, and volume II runs from Isaiah to Revelation.

Collated: illustrated with two engraved title pages, two engraved frontispieces, sixty plates, and eight partially hand coloured maps.

Nothing appears to be lacking, but numbers of plates and maps vary across institutional records.

The illustrators contributing to this volume include Holl, Robinson, Knight, and Whitfield.

First published in 1848, this is an 1855 edition of Davidson's work.

Davidson provides copious 'critical, explanatory, and practical notes, and reflections', with an introduction, chronological tables, and index of subjects.