The National Comprehensive Family Bible. The Holy Bible with an abridgement of the Commentaries of Scott and Henry and Containing also Many Thousand Critical and Explanatory Notes Selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries Condensed and the Whole Edited by the late Rev. John Eadie.Fully Illustrated with photogravure coloured and half-tone plates comprising a series from Original Paintings, by celebrated old masters and eminent modern artists. Also copyright photographs of scenes in bible lands, maps, Family Register, Portrait Album and the Lord's Prayer in Fourteen Languages, etc. etc.

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4to. (32 x 24 cm). pp. XV + 1216 + 60 + 100. Full contemporary black morocco, upper cover decorated with recessed central titlepanel in gilt,spine with raised bands, gilt lettered title and blind stamped in compartments, brass corners and clasps, yellow-coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Title-page printed in red and black. Bible followed by Biblical Cyclopaedia and Psalms, and Concordance. Chromolithographed title, and eight page register, 42 additional full-page plates including monochrome frontis., 15 additional monochrome, 15 coloured, 8 photogravure, 2 maps and a chromolithographed plate of the Lord's Prayer. The leaves of the Concordance at the rear of the book a little tanned but otherwise a particularly clean and handsome example. Rev. John Eadie: 1810-1876. Seller Inventory # 58488

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