1892 Jubilee Family Parallel Bible, full-page (color) (Dore) engravings with the Hofmann NT and unmarked family pages - Antique Family Bibles and Early English Bibles
1892 Jubilee Family Parallel Bible, full-page
(color) (Dore) engravings with the Hofmann NT
and unmarked family pages
Size: 12" x 10" x 5"
Publisher: Gately & Fitzgerald (AJ Holman), Philadelphia
VERY GOOD to EXCELLENT, RESTORED and DAILY USABLE condition
Price: $755.00
A beautiful, antique, (color) illustrated and
very extensive
illustrated 1492-1892 Jubilee Edition Family Holy Bible, including
numerous full page (with many Gustave Dore) engravings, color
plates, and chromolithographs (color engravings)
and maps. Gold gilt pages. Beautiful embossed and gold decorated covers showing Bible
scenes and a 5-raised band spine with the gold letter texts:
"Holy Bible", '2000 Illustrations'. This Bible presents both the King James and the 1881
Revised Version in for the Old and New Testament in parallel columns for
easy comparison.
Additionally
there are extensive other amazing resources included, like: color maps, Psalms in Metre;
the Books of the Bible, biographical and historical; EXTENSIVE
section of Scripture Illustrations; Patriarchs, Priests,
Prophets and Kings; Biographical Sketches of the Translators and
Reformers; Bible Stories for Young People; Four Thousand Questions
and Answers and much much more, also including a New
Self-Pronouncing Dictionary of the Holy Bible; Complete
Concordance, Parables with color illustrations and the
Hofmann's Gallery of New Testament Illustrations, Thorvaldsen
Gallery and so on.... Beautiful illustrations throughout.
Presentation page and pages for
family history plus pages for pictures at the end.
This Bible is in a VERY GOOD
to EXCELLENT,
RESTORED and
DAILY USABLE condition. Binding is professionally restored, you can use the Bible daily
(with care as always). Complete Bible. Clean pages, very nice. Minor typical
wear for its age, some smudges, some occasional foxing (see
pictures).
Original wedding page and original family pages - all unmarked. Majestic (and many) full plate
engravings
An attractive,
UNMARKED JUBILEE-edition color Antique Family Bible