The pictorial Bible
Subtitle: being the Old and New Testaments according to the authorized version : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, representing the historical events, after celebrated pictures ; the landscape scenes, from original drawings, or from authentic engravings ; and the subjects of natural history, costume, and 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 Scriptures as require observation.
Contributors: Jackson, John, 1801-1848.; William Clowes (Firm)
Publisher: Charles Knight & Co.
Published: 1836
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Holy Bible, according to the authorized version, containing the Old and New Testaments :
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1836-1838.
Notes: Each volume is with added wood-engraved illustrated t.p.

Includes wood-engraved illustrated initials.

Most wood-engraved illustrations are unsigned.  A few are signed "J. Jackson" or "J. Jackson Sc.".

Vol. III includes separate t.p. dated 1837: "The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; according to the authorized version, with original notes, and pictorial illustrations.".

" ... It remains for the Publishers to state that a complete Index to the Notes will be published on the 15th May, price 6d ... The Publishers have made arrangements for binding the Pictorial Bible in morocco, russia, or calf, (of which bindings specimens may be seen,) in the most elegant and substantial syle, at a moderate price; and the Subscribers may have their copies so bound, by forwarding them to 22, Ludgate Street, either direct, or through their Booksellers."--Advertisement, dated April 24th, 1838 (P. [1-2], Vol. III, inserted at p. 522).

Vol. III includes "Index to the notes of the pictorial Bible": p. 523-541, [1].

See also McLean Pam 0033.

MASS copy: Bound in navy blue fine-grain morocco tooled in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Board edges and turn-ins tooled in gold.  With yellow endpapers.