The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
September 8 - December 12, 2009
Bible with Engravings added
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Mark Baskett, for Robert Baskett, 1763.
English readers of the eighteenth century often wished to enhance
their Bibles with extra illustrations. Several London publishers satisfied this demand with series of engravings intended for
insertion within standard Bible editions. This Bible of 1763 was interleaved with some 200 illustrations from the London
bookseller Richard Ware’s edition of The Historical Part of the Bible... curiously engraved by J. Cole (London, c. 1760)
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