Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with Explanatory Notes, References, and a Condensed Concordance. Illustrated with More Than Nine Hundred Highly Finished Engravings.
New-York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880. Dore, Gustave. Full-Leather. Fair / No Jacket. Item #2332306
Boards loose, text block shaken, but a good candidate for recasing, as the leather and gilt on the covers remain in very good condition. Boards a bit rubbed, pages of New Testament heavily toned, Bible bookmarks and Church Union card of George Evans dated May of 1880 laid in.
xxi, [1], 1264, 424 pp. 12 5/8 x 10. Four-page blank Family Register precedes Old Testament. Engraved frontispiece by Gustave Dore, color plates, engravings throughout text. Cassell also released multi-volume editions of the Bible around the same time as this edition, which is complete in one volume.
Price: $175.00