Accession number
PML 128917
Published
Birmingham : Printed by Pearson and Rollason, 1788.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
The Apocrypha is appended to the Old Testament.
Frontispiece representing Adam and Eve in Paradise. With 39 plates designed by Haughton and others after Raphael, Velasquez, Michelangelo, Vanloo, and Zampieri: engraved by Hancock, Hicks, and others. A reprint of Baskerville's folio of 1763 with his annotations amended and increased, and arranged in the form of footnotes. Preceded by a preface, and by one page of tables. Last signature 9D1, followed by two pages containing information to purchasers, by an index to the Bible, and by a list of subscribers. Signatures continuous.
The second part has special t.-p.: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ... Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, 1788.
List of subscribers lacking in the Morgan Library copy.
Frontispiece representing Adam and Eve in Paradise. With 39 plates designed by Haughton and others after Raphael, Velasquez, Michelangelo, Vanloo, and Zampieri: engraved by Hancock, Hicks, and others. A reprint of Baskerville's folio of 1763 with his annotations amended and increased, and arranged in the form of footnotes. Preceded by a preface, and by one page of tables. Last signature 9D1, followed by two pages containing information to purchasers, by an index to the Bible, and by a list of subscribers. Signatures continuous.
The second part has special t.-p.: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ... Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, 1788.
List of subscribers lacking in the Morgan Library copy.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : Frontispiece, 39 plates. ; 28 cm
Binding
Contemporary embroidered binding in green satin, both covers with stylized flowers composed of yellow silk, with pearls inset in the front cover, a heart and flower design on the spine.
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