Author: Anonymous
Title: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha
Description: London, White, Cochrane and Co, 1815 . Leather. A beautifully bound and very scarce three volume edition of the Holy Bible, illustrated with engraved plates by Charles Heath and Richard Westall. A very scarce three volume folio edition of the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, illustrated by prominent English painter and portraitist Richard Westall, with plates engraved by Charles Heath.Illustrated with thirty engraved plates across the three volumes, including two engraved title pages. Collated, complete.With a wonderful presentation inscription to a front blank of volume I, in which William Chafy, the chaplain in ordinary to George III, George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria, presents this work to his niece, Mary Henniker-Major, on the occasion of her marriage to John Longueville Beddingfeld. The inscription is dated 1829.William Chafy served as Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1813 until his death, and in 1813 and 1829 he was vice-chancellor of the university.As identified by Jisc, while the title page dates these volumes with 1815, each plate bears the date 1821.In sumptuous contemporary straight grain purple morocco bindings, with extensive blind tooling and gilt tooling, and with a central gilt design of a Cathedral alter with architectural backing to each board. A truly beautiful Holy Bible. In full straight grain morocco bindings, with extensive blind tooling and gilt tooling. Light rubbing to volume I front joint, with boards exceptionally bright. Externally, lovely. Head of front hinge of volume I and tail of rear hinge of volume II strained, and firmly held. Inscription to verso of a front blank of volume I, and to rear blank of volume III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright and generally clean. Spotting and instances of foxing to plates, with some spotting to pages surrounding plates. Very Good . Ill.: Charles Heath; Richard Westall. Very Good .

Keywords: William Chafy chaplain in ordinary christianity bible chaplain in ordinary richard westall Charles Heath; Richard Westall


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