The Imperial Family Bible, 5 volumes (1844 Victorian Edition)

A$1,000 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

[HOLY BIBLE]. The Imperial Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Most Approved Copies of the Authorized Version. With Many Thousand Critical, Explanatory, and Practical Notes; Also, References, Readings, Chronological Tables, and Indexes. Illustrated by a Superb Series of Engravings from the Most Admired Productions of Ancient and Modern Art. Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1844. 5 volumes. Provenance: From the Whitmont family collection. Bookplate of Edward E. Whitmont in each volume. Large Folio (380 x 285mm). All five volumes bound uniformly in crushed red Morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated. Spines with five raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and titling. Covers decorated and margined in gilt and blind. Elaborately gilt-decorated dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extensive illustrations and engravings throughout all five volumes, after Old Master paintings and contemporary artists including John Martin. Vol. I: Genesis to Deuteronomy, with blank family register; Vol. II: Joshua to Song of Solomon; Vol. III: The Prophets and the Apocrypha; Vol. IV: Saint Matthew to Luke; Vol. V: Saint John to Revelation. Divided and bound as a five-volume set by A.Châtelin; a French-born, London-based binder in operation during the early-mid 19th century. The work was originally issued in a single folio volume (occasionally found in two), The Imperial Family Bible , first published in 1844, was, in the words of the historian Elizabeth Greenspan,

• Binding: Hardcover

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