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

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     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
Bible is SOLD
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
 
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