universal family Bible, or, Christian's divine library
Subtitle: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha at large, illustrated with notes theological, historical, practical, critical, and explanatory, wherein the mis-translations are corrected, the seeming contradictions reconciled, the difficult passages explained and the sacred writings dispayed [sic] in their genuine purity and lustre : the whole forming a complete commentary with practical improvements and general reflections on each chapter, adapted to the meanest capacities, and calculated to promote the happiness of Christian families
By: by the Reverend Henry Southwell, L.L.D., Rector of Asterby, in Lincolnshire, and late of Magdalen College, Cambridge ; embellished with upwards of one hundred elegant copper-plates, finely executed, from original drawings, designs, and capital foreign paintings, by Grignion, Walker, Rennoldson, Taylor, &c.
Contributors: Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 30-1779; Sanders, Robert, 1727-1783.
Series: Blake -- no. 859
Publisher: Printed for J. Cooke
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1190
Other titles: Christian's divine library
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1773.
Notes: H. Southwell, LL.D., rector of Asterby, Lincolnshire, lent his name to this work for a fee of a hundred guineas. The real compiler was Robert Sanders (1727-1783), a hack-writer with a fair knowledge of Hebrew and Greek, who received twenty-five shillings for his work.

The BM Catalogue places this Bible under the date 1773; D.N.B. states that it was first published in numbers, and then reissued in two folio volumes in 1774.

Text ends on 11 Y 1 b; the Apocrypha has a separate register.

Vol. 2 has separate t.p., register is continuous.

New Testament has special title-page: The universal family Bible, or, Christian's divine library, containing the sacred text of the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ...

Includes indexes.

Darlow & Moule, 908

Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, 1225

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

Victoria University Library copy lacks Plate 49.