Item 47 - The Holy Bible

2 v. in 1 (xii, 809; 882, 4 p.); ill., maps; 32 cm x 25.5 cm

Date: 1847
Publisher: A. Fullarton and Co., Dublin, London, and Edinburgh
Full title: 'The Holy Bible; translated from the Latin vulgate: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages; The Old Testament, first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament first published by the English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582, with useful notes, critical, historical, controversial and explanatory selected from the most eminent commentators, and the most able and judicious critics by the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock. Volume 2'.

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Bound in brown leather. Tooled spine. Stamped with religious motif on front cover. Gilt title to spine. Some wear to edges of spine. Front cover is slightly detached from text block.

A quarto edition of Haydock’s (1774-1849) text was begun by MacGregor, Polson & Company of Glasgow and Charles Dolman of London, and completed by A. Fullarton and Co. of Dublin, London, and Edinburgh.

The verso of the front cover has a gilt stamp: ‘Revd. Peter Joseph Mulligan, C.C. Guardian, 1849’. Ink stamp: ‘Ex libris bibliothecæ P.P. Capuccinorum Conventus Kilkenniensis’.