1857 Douay Rheims Catholic Bible, complete Leo Haydock notes

A pre-Civil War Roman Catholic Bible. This enormous 1857 Catholic antique family Bible has thick leather covered boards embossed with a cross. The text of this Bible is the so called Douay-Rheims Bible (or Doway Rheims Bible or D-R Bible), "translated from the Latin Vulgate ... with useful notes, critical, historical, controversial, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators, and the most able critics, by the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock." Bible's with complete (VERY EXTENSIVE) in-line commentary of Haydock are very rare to find, as most of the Bibles that were printed only have a selection of his work, this Bible has the complete commentary! Numerous full page engravings and illustrations. Contains various approbations of American bishops and archbishops. The family section has some entries for the Riker family.

This Bible is in a VERY GOOD condition, it has been professionally restored fairly recently: the spine and the covers) and its corners) have been rebacked and the original leather covers were mostly restored. Some of the pages in the front of the Bible were restored as well. Thanks to this the binding is now solid it can be open and read like a new book! All pages seem to be present, there are (child?) pencil scribbles mostly at some of the blank pages (hardly ever in the text) , no tears, some foxing/coloring/age spots. A nicely preserved/restored Haydock Bible!