The royal universal family Bible, or A complete library of divine knowledge :bcontaining the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at large, illustrated with notes, critical, historical, theological, and practical, wherein the difficult passages are explained, the seeming contradictions reconciled, the mis-translations corrected, the deistical objections refuted, and the Sacred Scriptures represented in their original purity, as the only means of reconciling offending Man to his offended God, with practical reflections on each chapter : the whol calculated to promote the interest of virtue and piety, and make men wise unto salvation : to which is added I. At the end of each book a connection between civil and sacred history ...
By: by the reverend John Herries ... and others.
Contributors: Herries, John.; Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 666
Publisher: Printed for Fielding and Walker ...
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Bible. O.T. Apocrypha
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1781.
Notes: The New Testament has a separate title-page.

Includes 100 engraved plates.

The frontispiece is engraved by Walker & Angus after Dodd; 5 of the plates are engraved by William Blake, one being drawn by him; of the remaining a few are unsigned, and the rest are by A. Byrell, J. Collyer, Cook, Grignion, D. Jenkins, Page, J. Parker, Thoonwaite, etc., after Dodd and D. Jenkins.

Easson & Essick, William Blake, v. 1, no. 1

Easson & Essick, William Blake, v. 2, no. 15

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 420

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy has armorial book plate of John Bailey.