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The National Comprehensive Family Bible. The Holy Bible with an abridgement of the Commentaries of Scott and Henry and Containing also Many Thousand Critical and Explanatory Notes Selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries Condensed and the Whole Edited by the late Rev. John Eadie....Fully Illustrated with Plates from Original Paintings, by Eminent Artists. Also Coloured Maps, Family Register, Roll of Honour, and the Lord's Prayer in Fourteen Languages, etc.
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[London, c.1880].. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). pp. 1216 + 34 + 60. Full contemporary black morocco, upper cover decorated with recessed central title panel in gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered title and blind stamped in compartments, brass corners and clasps, yellow-coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Title-page printed in red and black. Bible followed by Biblical Cyclopaedia, and Psalms of David. Chromolithographed title and four page register, 31 additional full-page colour plates including coloured frontis., 6 maps and a chromolithograph of the Lord's Prayer. Light toning and occasional spotting throughout, first blank slightly creased - generally a very good copy in a handsome binding. Rev. John Eadie: 1810-1876
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- The National Comprehensive Family Bible. The Holy Bible with an abridgement of the Commentaries of Scott and Henry and Containing also Many Thousand Critical and Explanatory Notes Selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries Condensed and the Whole Edited by the late Rev. John Eadie....Fully Illustrated with Plates from Original Paintings, by Eminent Artists. Also Coloured Maps, Family Register, Roll of Honour, and the Lord's Prayer in Fourteen Languages, etc.
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- Hardcover
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- [London, c.1880].
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Robert Frew Ltd
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About Robert Frew Ltd
Robert Frew has been trading in antiquarian books since 1975, starting out from an open market in Camden Lock, followed by shops in Primrose Hill, in Great Russell Street by the British Museum, Maddox Street Mayfair and now on the borders of South Kensington and Knightsbridge. Not to mention stints in Portobello Road and Safe Store Battersea.We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, of which Robert Frew is a past president.We Exhibit at most of the major international ILAB fairs in America, often in Europe and sometimes in the Middle and Far East. We are also members of the PBFA, exhibiting in London and occasionally in the provinces.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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