THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW AND COMPLETE BRITISH FAMILY BIBLE: Being a New, Clear, Full, and Universal Exposition and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Containing the Whole Of...the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at Large. by Wright, Paul - 1790

London: Printed for Alex Hogg, 1790. The letterpress title page is undated but Herbert suggests 1800, other authorities 1790's which would seem more likely given that this bible is based on Wright's bible of 1782. A sumptuous bible with a suite of 80 copper-engraved plates (including maps) and numerous notes; with the Apocrypha. Contemporary full reversed calf binding; front board detached, otherwise leather a little chipped and worn to edges. Contents good and tight, first few pages loosening and a little worn at edges, but once into the body of the bible the pages are clean and crisp. A good copy. Originally issued in 80 parts to subscribers, but was also available once completed "bound in calf and lettered". (Instructions to the binder are included at the end of the Apocrypha). The title page states regarding the plates: "The whole embellished with the most elegant set of large folio copper-plates ever published in a work of this kind; finely engraved from the original drawings and paintings of Hamilton, Dodd, Wale, Cipriani, Rubens, Vandyke, Raphael, and others, by those ingenious and celebrated artists, Pollard, Grignion, Goldar, Noble, Rennoldson, Conder, Jenkins, Smith, Thornton, Parker, Heath, Walker, Bartolozzi, &c. &c.". Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Folio (25 x 40cm).