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The illuminated Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, with marginal readings, references, and chronological dates : also, the Apocrypha : to which are added a chronological index, and index of the subjects contained in the Old and New Testaments, tables of weights, coins, measures, a list of proper names, a concordance, &c. / embellished with sixteen hundred historical engravings by J.A. Adams, more than fourteen hundred of which are from original designs by J.G. Chapman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection BS185 1843 .N4 no.2, 6, 8, 10, 12-30, 34, 47-52
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. English. Authorized. 1843.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Illustrations.
- Bible.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Pictures.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Mathewson, George (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 54 parts : illustrations ; 35 cm
- Other Title:
- Title from wrapper: Harper's illuminated and new pictorial Bible
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1843-1846.
- Notes:
- Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed in red and black; publisher's advertisement on back wrapper.
- T.p., special t.p. to Apocrypha and New Testament, other preliminaries, and plates issued with no. 54.
- "Printed from the standard copy of the American Bible Society": P. [4] of wrapper.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has nos. 8, 10, 11, 15, 24, 49 and 52; wrappers and some leaves from nos. 2, 6, 12-14, 16-22, 25-28, 29 (2 copies), 47-48, 50-51; and wrapper for no. 23 only.
- Penn Libraries copy: no. 11 bound in mutilated wrapper marked "no. 34"; no. 29 (copy 2) bound in wrapper marked "no. 30"; nos. 47, 48 and 49 each has ms. correction to printed number on front wrapper; ms. receipt for the purchase of nos. 47-54 laid in no. 15; some leaves unopened.
- Cited in:
- Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, 1860
- Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in America, 1161
- OCLC:
- 166595097
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