BIBLE IN ENGLISH 1800 The Old [New] Testament embellished

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THE MACKLIN BIBLE (ENGLISH.) The Old [New] Testament, embellished with Engravings, from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists. Volumes 1-6 (of 8). 70 (of ?) plates after Reynolds, Stothard, West, and others; engraved dedication to King George III in Volume 1. Half-titles; subscribers' list. Together, 6 volumes. Folio, 459x364 mm, early 19th-century dark blue straight-grain morocco attractively gilt, spines darkened to brown, with occasional superficial horizontal cracks, ends worn, joints rubbed and cracked or starting, cords intact; varying offsetting from engraved matter, dedication and some plates foxed or browned in margins, vertical crease in Volume 6 half-title and title. London: Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800

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first macklin edition. This set comprises the Old and New Testament; the Apocrypha was published separately in 2 volumes in 1816. Herbert 1442; Updike II, 121-22 and 188. From the library of Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944), with his gilt supra-libros on front covers, and his armorial bookplates.