ca 1870 Unused Color Illustrated Bible, brass corners and clasps

This unusually beautifully illustrated (early) Antique Family Bible with ornate brass corners and fully functional metal clasps is in an EXCELLENT condition. It has a total of 24 very attractive, very rare (for this publishing date) and pristinely preserved color lithographs of original paintings, as per the title page: "with a series of coloured plates from original paintings by F. Goodall, Miss Gow and P.R. Morris and lithographic transfers on steel plates from pictures of eminent masters, coloured maps, family register and portrait albums etc."

"The National Comprehensive Family Bible ... with an abridgement of the commentaries of Scott and Henry, also containing many thousand critical and explanatory notes selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The commentaries condensed and the whole edited by the Rev. John Eadie, DD., LL.D., professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church."

Apart from the Old and New Testament, there is a beautifully (color) decorated, unmarked family portrait section, an extensive Biblical Cyclopedia, Psalms of David in Metre, and a Concordance.

This Bible is in an EXCELLENT almost pristine condition. The binding is solid. There is NO writing. The book itself covered in a heavy brown leather with rounded beveled edges, Metal brass corners and two brass clasps; brass has a cut out decoration which shows through a bright red at back but front is duller. All plates have tissue guards in excellent order. No missing pages (except for two of the family pages) nor any staining nor any writing, just a very slight 'aging' of the paper This large European HOLY BIBLE is in super condition with no damages, only a few minor scratches from age but they don't disturb the quality of this antique Bible.