A new and complete universal history of the Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testament
Subtitle: and comprising all transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings, from the creation of the world, to the full establishment of Christianity : in which the several parts of Scripture are pleasingly related, and satisfactorily illustrated, obscure passages rendered clear; seeming inconsistences reconciled; the various significations of the most expressive appellatives elucidated; false translations amended, former errors corrected; and difficult texts made clear to every capacity : to which are added an ample and comprehensive display of the connection between the sacred writers and profane authors : also particular accounts of the lives and transactions of the most eminent patriarchs, prophets, and other servants of God, who, by an inspired Grace, have distinguished themselves in the display of divine wisdom : illustrated with notes historical, theological, civil, commercial, geographical, literal, critical, natural, military, political, systematical, chronological, argumentative, philological, explanatory, reconciliatory, biographical, practical and moral, the whole calculated to enlighten the understanding, purify the heart, and promote the knowledge of those Sacred Scriptures, by which we may obtain happiness here, and eternal salvation hereafter
By: by the Reverend Edward Kimpton ... ; assisted by many learned gentlemen, who have made the Sacred Writings their peculiar study ; embellished with a great number of beautiful copper-plates, descriptive of the most distinguished transactions related in the Sacred Writings, from original drawings of the ingenious Messrs. Metz, Stothard and Saunders, Members of the Royal Academy, and other eminent artists ; the whole engraved by the most capital performers, particularly Grignion, Collier, Heath, Cook, Blake, White, Taylor, &c.
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 745
Publisher: Printed for J. Cooke ...
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 698
Subjects: Bible -- History of Biblical events
Notes: Printed in columns.

Issued as 60 weekly numbers from 7 April 1781 to 8 June 1782. Cf. Bentley, Blake books suppl.

Three of the sixty-one plates are by William Blake.

ESTC T95514

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 478

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., pp. 229-232

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