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Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.

Parallel Latin and Italian with notes in Italian and includes indexes. Included is a lithographic illustration of Samuel and Eli done by American John Singleton Copley (1738–1815).

The woodcuts in this edition of the Bible are copies from Holbein's Old Testament illustrations from the 1520s.

Although publication of this twelve-volume French Bible was initiated in 1789, the first year of the violent and anti-religious period of the French Revolution, the Bible was completed fifteen years later with neoclassical illustrations.

The Greek New Testament was rarely printed with illustrations, but this edition has notes from John Mill (1645–1707) and engravigns introducing the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.

Like many other nineteenth-century Bibles, this Bible features illustrations based on the old masters.

Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, this edition features several full-page engravings.

Woodcut illustrations with hand coloring.

Medieval translation of the Bible into Czech that includes rich woodcut illustrations.

As a concession to Puritan tastes, the first edition of the King James Bible has no illustrations aside from its title page, a second title page for the New Testament, a woodcut of Adam and Eve at the beginning of the genealogical tables, and a map…

118 Old Testament illustrations that Holbien produced in the 1520s.

Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring.

Biblical commentary with printed woodcut illustrations of images and diagrams based on Nicholas de Lyra's Postilla.

Low German Bible translation of the Bible with woodcuts by anonymous artists.

The majority of the 109 woodcuts used in this Nuremberg edition of the German Bible of 1483 originally were produced in Cologne for Heinrich Quentell's Low German Bible of c. 1478. The woodcuts were hand colored.

Four horsemen of the apocalypse pictured together as typical of 15th century German art. The illustrations are hand-colored wood engravings.

Second printing of Zainer's Bible using the same illustrations from his edition printed around 1474.

First illustrated Bible in the history of European typography and first Bible with woodcuts.

This 1498 edition of the Vulgate with commentaries includes numerous woodcut illustrations based on Nicholas de Lyra's interpretations.

Biblical text, commentary, illustrations, and captions are featured in this biblical commentary.

One of the first Ventian books with extensive woodcuts. This Bible has commentaries, illustrations, and diagrams.

Small folio edition of the Italian translation of the Bible by Niccolò Malermi (c. 1422–1481) including woodcut illustrations.

First Printed Vulgate with woodcuts throughout. Includes the typical details of Vulgate Bibles at the time: printed initials, chapter numbers, book headlines, foliation, marginal references, chapter subdivisions, and additional readers' aids.

Early printed Bibles offered no accommodation for pictorial decoration aside from indented spaces for the addition of handwritten initials. This Bible's only illustration is of St. Jerome included within the space left for the intial "F" .

Before 1660, most King James Versions of the Bible were not illustrated per the Puritan tradition. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Puritanism declined and illustrated Bibles increased again.
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