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THE MACKLIN BIBLE (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Old [New] Testament, embellished with Engravings, from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists. Volumes 1-6 (of 8). 65 (of 71) plates after Reynolds, Stothard, West, and others; engraved dedication to King George III in Volume 1. Half-titles; subscribers' list. Together, 6 volumes. Folio, 465x374 mm, early 19th-century red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt, Volume 1 front cover detached, stain on Volume 4 rear cover; vertical crease in Volume 1 preliminaries, dedication leaf loose, conspicuous marginal dampstaining throughout Volume 2 occasionally entering text and images, light marginal dampstaining through most of the remaining volumes. Contemporary inscription on front blanks inscribed: "C. Mackenzie From her dear Brother Sir Harry Niven Lumsden." London: Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800
first macklin edition of the King James Bible. Conceived as the most lavish illustrated edition ever published, "the Macklin Bible endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain" (ODNB). 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; see also De Hamel, The Bible, pages 255-56, regarding the ploys used by Macklin to circumvent copyright restrictions on the Authorized Version.
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