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(HOLY BIBLE; English) MACKLIN, Thomas.
The Old and New Testament.
Embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists.
"The Macklin Bible endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled" (ODNB).
Folio, 6 volumes. Contemporary green morocco, spines gilt in compartments with sun-in-splendor tools, elaborate greek key roll and cornerpieces to boards, marbled endpapers, turn-ins and all edges gilt. With 71 full-page copper engravings after Fuseli and others, supplemented with many fine pictorial decorations throughout the text. Bookplates. Some foxing to some plates. Some rubbing and bumping as usual, but withal a very handsome set in a magnificent binding.
