The Holy Bible, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists.
Published by LondonPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley ., 1800
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United KingdomRobert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB
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7 vols. Large folio (47.25 x 38 cm). Contemporary blue straight-grain morocco by C. Meyer, sides ruled in gilt with decorative fillet and roll borders, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt and with some gauffering. Engrave title and 70 full-page engraved plates after Fuseli, Reynolds, Kauffman, Hamilton, West, etc., plus numerous vignette head- and tail-pieces. Ex libris Gaddesden Library with their armourial bookplate to front-pastedown of each volume. Joints to volume one with professional restorations, occasional light offsetting and spotting, generally a fine example of this landmark edition of the bible. The most prodigious form of scripture in English ever published, the Macklin Bible features large and bold type, fine Whatman paper, and a series of engravings by some of the most celebrated artists of the time. Macklin announced his plan to produce a lavishly illustrated, luxuriously produced folio Bible in 1789, and he spent the next 11 years making his dream a reality, though it proved a costly endeavour. He paid Reynolds £500 for his Holy Family, and William Sharp £700 for its engraving. The average cost for 45 of the Bible's other engravings was £220, and the total cost of the publication was an estimated £30,000 (approximately £4,500,000 in today's money). His efforts paid off: "the subscription list for 703 copies at £46 1s. apiece was headed by the King, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales" (DNB). Macklin died just five days after the last engraving was finished, and did not see his masterpiece become one of the most acclaimed English Bibles. "The Macklin Bible endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled" (DNB). A further volume of the Apocrypha was published in 1816.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Holy Bible, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists.
- Author
- (MACKLIN BIBLE).
- Publisher
- LondonPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley .
- Publication year
- 1800
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- BINDINGS & SETS, RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB
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