Physical description
Hard cover book: Bible, Old & New Testaments
Editor: Rev. George Leo Haydock
Publisher: James Semple, 7 Stirling Road, Glasgow
Date: 1875
Further Information: Brown leather bound with extensive gilt pattering to Spine and Front Board, Cross icon to front board and brass book clasps to corners.
Publication type
non-fiction
Inscriptions & markings
No Library label on the spine no identifying stickers on front or loose end paper
Summary
This edition is part of what Bible bibliographers classify as the Haydock Quarto Series. It uses the Douay Rheims version (the standard English translation of the Latin Vulgate for Roman Catholics) and is heavily updated with extensive annotations. The subject volume is a large, decorative family Bible. Bibles of this style were peak Victorian subscription publishing, and publishers like Semple typically issued these in unbound parts or sold them via travelling canvassers, bound in heavy, blind stamped or gilt leather meant to serve as a visual centerpiece in a Victorian home.
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