Hieroglyphic Bibles, their origin and history. A hitherto Unwritten Chapter of Bibliography With Facsimile Illustrations. And A New Hieroglyphic Bible told in stories

by Frederick A. Laing by W. A Clouston

£575 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894. Bibles FIRST EDITION. Quarto 26 x cm , pp.xvi; 316; 25 card leaves, two with illustrated title pages for the New and Old Testaments, two blank the rest with four illustrations per page. Publisher's tan buckram, blocked in black and gilt to spine and upper, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Blue paper backed cloth dust-jacket repeating the binding design in black. Internally fine. Cloth lightly scuffed

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