Accession number
PML 142163-65
Published
London : Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, & J. Fittler, No. 62, Upper Charlotte Street, 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"The letter press by Thomas Bensley."
Engraved t.p. in each volume; engraved and illustrated chapter index before each book.
Illustrated with 63 engravings accompanied by guard sheets, including illustrated chapter indices.
Unpaged; text printed in two columns.
Frontispiece representing Adam and Eve in Paradise, engraved by J. Fittler after Dürer and bears the title: Cabinet Bible, 1795. Title pages designed by Tompkins, engraved by Vincent. Plates designed by Ryley after Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin, and others. New Testament has frontispiece designed after Correggio.
Without the Apocrypha.
All 3 volumes inscribed on second flyleaf: Rebecca Yates born October 16th, 1782.
Engraved t.p. in each volume; engraved and illustrated chapter index before each book.
Illustrated with 63 engravings accompanied by guard sheets, including illustrated chapter indices.
Unpaged; text printed in two columns.
Frontispiece representing Adam and Eve in Paradise, engraved by J. Fittler after Dürer and bears the title: Cabinet Bible, 1795. Title pages designed by Tompkins, engraved by Vincent. Plates designed by Ryley after Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin, and others. New Testament has frontispiece designed after Correggio.
Without the Apocrypha.
All 3 volumes inscribed on second flyleaf: Rebecca Yates born October 16th, 1782.
Description
2 v. in 3 (64 leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 26 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco tooled in gilt with purple silk doublures; with fore-edge painting on each volume, showing views of Carnarvon Castle, Carrick Abbey, and Berodley Bridge.
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