1880ies Astounding (Dore) Illustrated Explanatory Bible, full-page (color) engravings and original unmarked family pages

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A beautiful and very well preserved 'Illustrated Explanatory Family Bible' including numerous full page Gustave Dore engravings, chromolithographs (color engravings) and color maps. Gold gilt pages. This very attractive Family Bible has intricate gold-embedded decorated covers (depicting scenes of the Bible) and spine, all with the gold-letter text "Holy Bible". The Bible text is the King James Version for the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha.

Additionally there are extensive other resources included, like: the Apocrypha, Psalms in Metre and marginal References and Readings; Pictorial History of the Books of the Bibles; Illustrated Christian Denominations of the World; Blackwood's Concise Treatise on the Genuineness, Authenticity, Inspiration, Presentation and Value of the Word of God; History of the Translations into English Tables of Parables, Miracles and Discourses of Jesus Christ, multiple Gustave Dore Scripture Illustrations, and much more, including a Brown's Complete concordance and a Pictorial Bible Dictionary. "With several Hundred Engravings, Maps and Plans on Wood and Steel".

There is a blank presentation page in the front. Between the Old and New Testament are the blank Holy Matrimony page and pages for recording births, deaths and marriages. Pages for family pictures at the end.