[Prospectus for] The pictorial history of England
Subtitle: being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts of monumental records, coins, civil and military costume, domestic buildings, furniture and ornaments, cathedrals and other great works of architecture,  sports and other illustrations of manners, mechanical inventions, portraits of eminent persons, and remarkable historical scenes.
Contributors: William Clowes (Firm)
Publisher: C. Knight & Co., 22, Ludgate-Street
Published: 1837
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling -- Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
Other titles: Prospectus of the Pictorial history of England; The pictorial history of England: being a history of the people, as well as a history of the kingdom.; The pictorial Bible; being the Old and New testaments according to the authorized version.
Notes: Letterpress text printed on all sides of folded sheet.

P. [2] is entitled "Prospectus of the Pictorial History of England".

"The writers of 'Pictorial History of England' will be numerous; and they will undertake their several portions of the work with reference to their individual tastes and acquirements; while a unity of plan will be secured by the whole being under the direction of a responsible Editor ..."--P. [2].

"The Publication, of which the first Part and the first Number appeared on the 1st of March, 1837, will be continued in Monthly Parts, price 2s., and in Weekly Numbers, price 6d., and will be completed in three super-royal Octavo Volumes, similar to those of the 'Pictorial Bible.'  The Work, in addition to its Wood-Cuts, will contain about as much letter-press as twenty common Octavo Volumes of four hundred pages each."--P. [2]

T.p. on p. [1] is with elaborate architectural wood-engraved border design.

P. [3-4] is "Advertisement." for "The Pictorial Bible, being the old and new testaments according to the authorized version : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, representing the historical events, after the most celebrated pictures; the landscape scenes, from original drawings or from authentic engravings and the subjects of natural history, of costume, and of antiquities, from the best sources : to which are added, original notes, chiefly explanatory of the engravings, and of such passages connected with the history, geography, natural history, and antiquities of the sacred scripture as require observation.".

"The 'Text'  of the 'Pictorial Bible' is that of the standard edition, commonly called Dr. Blayney's.  The 'Marginal References, Readings, and Explanations of the authorized translators, are given as foot-notes to each page.  These references, &c., are not so numerous as those of later editions, but they are considered of superior authority, and are the same as those given in the edition by D'Oyly and Mant.  They have been printed in  the 'Pictorial Bible' from the celebrated Cambridge edition of Buck and Daniel.  The 'Pictorial Bible' is issued in Monthly Parts, price 2s., and in Weekly Numbers, price 6d.  The First Volume, which was completed in September, 1836, includes to the end of Ruth.  As the Pentateuch and the earlier Historical Books have necessarily required very numerous and detailed Notes, explaining the Scripture Geography, and illustrating the Customs and Laws therein described, to which it will of course only be necessary to refer in future, it is fully ascertained that the Work will not exceed its announced limits, namely--Three Volumes.  The Publishers, therefore, willingly pledge themselves to its completion within those limits."--P. [4].

See also McLean Q 0028.95.