BIBLES etc 1800 The Old [New] Testament embellished with E

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SUBSCRIBER'S SET OF THE MACKLIN BIBLE The Old [New] Testament, embellished with Engravings, from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists. Volumes 1-6 (of 8), bound in 7. 70 (of 71) plates after Reynolds, Stothard, West, and others; engraved dedication to King George III in Volume 1; plate from the Apocrypha (Judith Atireing) bound in Volume 5. Half-titles in all but the last volume; subscribers' list. Folio, 465x380 mm, contemporary russia with gilt Greek-key border on covers, rebacked with morocco, cover corners restored; offsetting from plates throughout, most plates foxed in margins, some plates in first 2 volumes dampstained in upper inner corners. Armorial bookplates of John, Duke of Bedford. London: Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800

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first macklin edition of the King James Bible; subscriber's set, with the contemporary armorial bookplates of John, Duke of Bedford. 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.