THE HOLY BIBLE Containing THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, Authorised Translation; With All The Parallel Texts and Marginal Readings. To Which Are Added NOTES and Practical observations Designed As A Help To A Correct Understanding Of The Sacred Writings. ( Very early Folio Edition. Includes the Apocrypha )

Very scarce One Volume Folio Edition, possibly the first edition. Contains the Old and New Testaments and includes the Apocryphal Books: Esdras I & II, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Suzanna, Bel & Dragon, Prayer & Maccabees I & II. Title page is undated but the Frontis illus. is dated 1813 and the Introduction by Adam Clarke is dated 1816. (The Caxton Press in Liverpool was destroyed by fire in 1821). Very well illustrated with X Full-Page Engraved Plates. Old Testament has 24 Plates, The Apocrypha has 5 and the New Testament 14 (including 2 in Revelation). Text arranged in Double columns with Clarkes notes beneath. VI Prelim+ Dedicatory Page. Main Text: Old Testament Genesis to Malachi, 868 pages. The Apocrypha is separately paginated, 177 pages. The New Testament has it's own Title Page and Frontis, and continues the pagination from the Old Testament, from 869 to1170 and 2 further pages on the history of the Bible conclude the work. Period Brown Full-Leather binding with 5 raised bands to spine. Bright gilt title and decorative motifs on spine. Some wear to cover (see photos). Binding repaired with a strip of leather around the corner running the length of the right side of spine. Corners worn. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Text block firm. Inscription on back of title page. On page of the introduction has been mostly torn out. Some faint discolouring in corner of Plates (see photos). One Plate has an antique inscription in old browned ink on the back which shows through the illustration on the other side (see Photos). Very heavy Bible, shipping outside Uk may be extra.…