The English Version Of The Polyglott Bible...with Marginal Readings... by Bible - 1843

Philadelphia Pa.: Grigg & Elliot, 1844. Full-Leather. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Leather Is Worn At The Edges And Through At The Corners. Pencil Marks On The Endpapers. Hinges Are Cracked But Solid. Some Foxing Present. Please Look At The Scans That Are With This Listing. What You See Is What You Get.

Stereotyped by L. Johnson for Key & Meilke, Philadelphia: ., 1831 Old and New Testaments bound in one: pp. viii, 3-587; 190 + Engraved frontis and title. Irregular pagination. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Double column. Early manuscript ownership of Julia A. Lumbard on first fly leaf. Front fly leaves loose. 16mo. 145 mm. Original leather binding. Original leather spine label, lettered in Gothic type. Spine worn with small loss at rear joint. Title continues: 'With The Marginal Readings: Together With A Copious And Original Selection Of References To Parallel And Illustrative Passages. Exhibited In A Manner Hitherto Unattemped'. Hardbound. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is the English text from Samuel Baxter's eight language Polyglot printed in London in 1822. The little book became an immediate success and later editions are not uncommon, but this first edition is quite SCARCE. Hills 753; D/M 1785. PAIMP 21. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.

Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1841. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 24 Mo. A near fine copy bound in contemporary full black leather with gilt lettering and decoration spine, gilt illustration covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page. A beautiful little bible. viii, 587 pp. 190 pp.