The Practical and Devotional Family Bible
MACFARLANE, ed., John
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by John M'Farlane.
FIRST MACFARLANE IN PERIOD BINDING WITH CLASP
Published: William Collins for Charles Parry, 1860
Stock code: 21665
Price: £400.00
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with 2 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 24 fine engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), 5 engraved maps coloured in outline and an engraved plan, 4pp Family Register engraved in red and black, some light and inoffensive age-staining (mainly marginal); handsomely bound in original full pebble-grain pigskin, upper board with debossed decorative multiple frame border enclosing stylised floral lozenge, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in blind, all edges gilt, boards set in brass frame with ornate clasp, very neatly rebacked, a remarkably bright, clean and most attractive copy.
The Family Register, placed between the Testaments as usual, is completed in manuscript for the Wilson family; John and Maria Wilson were married at Trinity Church, Lambeth, Surrey in 1847. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST FAMOUS MID-VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLES.