The Old Testament
By: embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists.
Contributors: Macklin, Thomas.; Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815.; Landseer, John, 1769-1852.; Fittler, James, 1758-1835.; Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812; Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825.; Opie, John, 1761-1807.; Hamilton, William, 1751-1801.; Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.; Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.; Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807; West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.; Artaud, Jean Baptiste, 1732-1796
Series: Blake -- no. 864
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bentley
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Holy Bible; Macklin's Bible; Macklin Bible.
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1800.
Notes: T.p. of v. 5-6 reads: The New Testament : embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists.

Dots under first vowel of words generally printed in italics.

An additional volume, The Apocrypha, was issued in 1816.

Without pagination; signatures continuous.

Seventy plates and one hundred and eight vignettes engraved by Bartolozzi, Landseer, Fittler, and others after Loutherbourg (121), Fuseli (1), Opie (8), Hamilton (15), Reynolds (1), Stothard (5), Kauffman (2), West (4), Artaud (5) and others.

"Subscribers": [8] p. at front of v. 1.

Originally issued in parts, the plates are dated from 1791 to 1800; engr. dedication leaf in vol. 1 dated Jan. 1791.

Known as the Macklin Bible.

Tiny printed notes are found on the bottom of some pages, well below the text.

Herbert, A.S. English Bible, no. 1442

Gift to Victoria University LIbrary. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  Genesis-Deuteronomy; value: v. 2.  Joshua-I Chronicles; value: v. 3.  II Chronicles-Isaiah; value: v. 4.  Jeremiah-Malachi; value: v. 5.  Matthew-John; value: v. 6.  Acts-Revelations.