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The illuminated Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared abnd revised : with marginal readings, references, and chronological dates : also, the Apocrypha, to which are added a chronological index, an index of the subjects contained in the Old and New Testaments, tables of weights, coins, measures, a list of proper names, a concordance, &c. / embellished with sixteen hundred historical engravings by J.A. Adams ; more than fourteen hundred of which are from the original designs by J.G. Chapman.

Accession number
PML 141384
Published
New York : Harper & Bros., 1846.
Notes
Engraved t.p. and half-t.p. in red and black.
Index leaf in blue and black.
Four separate leaves with illustrated borders for recording Marriages, births, and deaths at end of the Apocrypha; leaf for recording a gift inscription at head volume.
Illustrated titles, 2 full-page wood engraved frontispieces, and ca. 1600 wood engraved textual illustrations throughout by J.A. Adams after Chapman.
"Many of the illustrations were made from woodcuts by the electrotype process, the first in America"--Herbert.
Originally published in 54 parts, 1843-1846.
Description
844, 128, 256, 34 pages, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Gift inscription from Robert Boreel to his sister M. Boreel on printed leaf for gift inscriptions preceding frontispiece.
Provenance
M. Boreel; bookplate of former owner with initials "BVH"; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Gilt-stamped black morocco.
Classification
Department