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1800 Macklin Bible, Item # MC1800B

1800 Macklin Bible

[Bible in English.] The Holy Bible… London: Printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800.

Six very large folio volumes, each approximately 19 x 16 inches; the full set weighs about 150 pounds.

Volumes 1-4 comprise the Old Testament; 5 and 6, the New testament, with plates bound in where called for (rather than as separate Volume 7 as sometimes seen. There is no Apocrypha in this printing.

First Printing of the sumptuous Macklin illustrated edition of Scripture – the largest English Bible ever printed – one of the largest and most beautiful Bibles ever produced in any language, “embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists.” (e.g. Fuseli, Reynolds). “A splendid work, printed in very large type by Bensley, and ornamented with fine engravings” (Allibone).

The Seventy full-page plates and the other engravings are truly brilliant and sumptuous.

Rebound by Starr Book Works of Arizona. Lovely. Very light scattered foxing to just a few of the plate margins. Overall, fine – one of the cleanest and brightest copies we have handled in the last ten years.