Complete Parallel Bible Containing Old by Bible (2 results)
Published by Oxford, University Press 1989, 1989
- Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, NetherlandsAntiquariaat Schot
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Add to basket3249 p. Cloth.
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Published by Boston George V. Jones circa, 1885
- Hardcover
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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£ 850.00
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Add to basketParallel Bible; Folio (330 x 280mm); ornate presentation page, holy commandments, biographical sketches of reformers and translators, glossaries, analytical tables, further explanatory texts, 2000 engravings on steel, wood, and in colour, maps, family registrar between testaments as is usual, four final pages for the purpose of…family portraits, unused, loss to final index page, usual age-toning, pages are generally clean and colour pages especially are richly preserved; wine-stained full leather, lavishly decorated in sunken relief, in segments, depicting the evangelists in gilt, with other scenes from new and old testament, gilt titles to spine, four compartments tooled in gilt, two metal clasps, all edges gilt, small split to hinge at presentation page, binding holds very well; very good indeed. Drawing on the rich iconography of ecclesiastical history, this bible has the external appearance of a suitably High-Gothic monstrance.
