Thumb Bible.- Bible (English) The Holy Bible containing
Thumb Bible.- Bible (English) The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testaments, with Apocrypha, Epitomiz'd In Verse, "seventh edition", woodcut half-title with portrait of George I to verso, woodcut title and several woodcut illustrations in text, lower corner of half-title missing, slightly affecting text beneath portrait to verso, border of portrait trimmed at fore-edge, insignificant worming to first few leaves, some soiling, stitched into later (probably 18th century) wrappers, upper cover slightly chipped and wormed, 16mo, Printed for John Marshall, at the Bible in Gracechurch Street, [c.1715].
⁂ Unrecorded version of a miniature abbreviated Bible in verse - the entire text reduced to 57 small pages with illustrations. This version, with the portrait of George I as frontispiece, can be dated to after 1714 and before about 1725.
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Thumb Bible.- Bible (English) The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testaments, with Apocrypha, Epitomiz'd In Verse, "seventh edition", woodcut half-title with portrait of George I to verso, woodcut title and several woodcut illustrations in text, lower corner of half-title missing, slightly affecting text beneath portrait to verso, border of portrait trimmed at fore-edge, insignificant worming to first few leaves, some soiling, stitched into later (probably 18th century) wrappers, upper cover slightly chipped and wormed, 16mo, Printed for John Marshall, at the Bible in Gracechurch Street, [c.1715].
⁂ Unrecorded version of a miniature abbreviated Bible in verse - the entire text reduced to 57 small pages with illustrations. This version, with the portrait of George I as frontispiece, can be dated to after 1714 and before about 1725.
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