SIXTY-SEVEN COPPER ENGRAVED TABLES, from The Complete British Family Bible : Being A New, Clear, Full and Universal Exposition and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Containing the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha, at Large. Illustrated with Notes and Annotations compiled by Paul Wright and published by Alex Hoggs in the same 1782. An extremely rare collection of plates of engravings by the most important engravers and painters of the 17th and 18th centuries of this large and compelling family bible. The painters and engravers include Maratti and Wooding, Van Dyke and Pollard, Smith, Noble, and many others.

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