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Collection: The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
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This Bible includes several chromolithographic plates, numerous monochromatic wood engravings after Doré and other artists, and a copiously illustrated dictionary of biblical terms.
Prothro B-204
Gustave Doré's (1832–1883) wood engravings are featured in this French Bible. He was known for his dramatically lit night scenes and apocalyptic spectacles.
31503
Like many other nineteenth-century Bibles, this Bible features illustrations based on the old masters.
Prothro B-466
English Bible with wood engravings.
AEW1008
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).
BRA1385
Clarendon Press Bible that includes engravings copied after famous old master paintings.
Prothro B-137
First critial edition of the Armenian scriptures including engravings that introduce each of the four volumes.
00457
Cabinet Bible with engravings after well-known old master paintings held in British collections.
00390
Latin Vulgate and French on opposite pages. Illustrations done by Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (1741–1814).
AEP7798
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.
Prothro B-113
Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831) printed the first illustrated Bible in America using the King James Version for the text.
AFJ8524
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
00094/A
This Lutheran translation of the Dutch New Testament includes twenty-four etchings by Jan Luyken (1649–1712).
ADH3986
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.
Prothro B-26
John Baskett (1665–1742) printed this Bible with multiple misprints gaining it the name "Baskett-ful of Errors" and "Vinegar Bible". Despite the misspellings, the Bible contains rich engravings.
BRA2390
The 1663 reprint of the Ostrog Bible of 1581, the first complete edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic and the first printed in Cyrillic type. This edition includes woodcut ornaments and illustrations.
02435
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.
Prothro B-121
More than one thousand woodcut illustrations are included in this Dutch Bible. The image for the Idolatry of King Solomon was based on Lucas ven Leyden's 1514 engraving.
31472
Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, this edition features several full-page engravings.
Prothro B-189
While the King James Version of the Bible avoided illustrations during the 1600s, other English Bible versions such as this Douay-Rheims version, maintained illustrations.
10601/A
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…
Prothro B-290
One of the first Latin Bibles to advertise its illustrations in the title of the work. Illustrations are etchings and engravings.
BRB1132
The editing of this edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible was found to be incorrect and was withdrawn. Additionally, there is a controversial woodcut that caused this edition to censored.
Prothro B-109
The "Hamburg Polyglot" includes the texts of the Greek Septuagint, St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, the modern Latin versions of Sante Pagnini (Old Testament) or Thdore de Be (New Testament), and Luther's German. Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, it…
Prothro B-12
Text of GospelsinArabic, with interlinear Latin translation. Woodcut illustrations were included but might have hampered missionary efforts because Muslims were forbidden to contemplate religious images.
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