BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible, Bungay, 1812, folio, engraved plates, contemporary calf, the spine elaborately decorated in gilt (rubbed). With another related book. (2)

BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible Containing the Old & New Testaments with a Paraphrase on the most obscure and Important Parts, Explanatory Notes and Evangelical Reflections by the late Rev.d. John Brown. Bungay, Suffolk: "Printed and Published by C. Brightly & T. Kinnersley," May 26th 1812. Folio (432 x 270mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and 41 engraved plates (a few plates torn without loss, some light spotting and staining, many leaves lightly browned). Contemporary calf, the spine elaborately decorated in gilt with red morocco lettering-piece, pale blue endpapers (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Whitehouse, May 1819 (signature on the sub-title of the Apocrypha); John Gardner (a regretful typed letter loosely-inserted, concerning the value of the bible, from Julian Rota of Sotheby's to John Gardner, dated 22 October 1985). With The Altar Services, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland (Cambridge, 1828, contemporary morocco, worn). (2)