Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments to which are annexed marginal references and illustrations; an exact summary of the several books; a paraphrase on the most obscure or important parts; explanatory notes; evangelical reflections etc. by Rev. John Brown

The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 1123 pages. Red cloth with debossed decorations and gilt lettering. Metal clasp to edge. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Both hinges mildly cracked, reinforced with brown tape. Binding throughout is firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to text block edges. Minor creasing to title page and Index page. Text is unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing with small splits to spine ends and corners. Cloth is slightly frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened. Faint water staining to both boards causing cloth to be slightly discoloured. Book has a slight forward lean.

Glasgow: James Semple, N.D. [Circa 1885]. Hardcover. pp. xiii, lxxxii, 1149, + Concordance [pp. 71]. Thick Heavy 4to., measuring 13" x 10". Professionally rebacked in full contemporary textured black buckram featuring gilt rules and lettering to the spine, and front board; gilt foredges, three silk ribbon-markers in yellow, green, and blue. Fresh endpapers. Bright, elaborately decorated title page, colour frontispiece, accompanied with one coloured map, and nineteen additional full-colour plates depicting various Biblical scenes; all collated, and accounted for. Text organized into two to three columns with extensive commentary housed in a separate row. Remarkably well-preserved, and professionally rebound the extremities are entirely free of any flaws. With the exception of a touch of chipping to the outer edges of the first, and last page the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. A most handsome presentation of one of the most popular Bibles to emerge in the Victorian era and by far the most… Read More

London, Glasgow, and Dublen; Blackie & Son, Limited; n.d. (c-1880).. Roy. 4to; pp. xiv, lxxxii, 1146, 64; engraved frontispiece and title page, text with 39 full page engraved plates, original embossed full leather, title lettered on spine in gilt, gilt decoration to spine and boards, original ornate gilt brass clasps, all edges gilt, good copy.