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Shire of Toodyay > Records

BIBLE, ILLUSTRATED

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1885

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Books & Newspapers

Overview

MARRIS Family Bible
Profusely illustrated bible with nearly two thousand illustrative engravings on steel, wood, and in colours, including full-page maps and chromolithographed plates.
Text inside has the AD1611 King James Version of the New Testament in one column and the AD1881 revised version in another column.
Cover is deeply embossed boards with elaborate gilt decoration. Edge of spine fraying. Inside some of it is detached from spine.
Chromolithographed pages for births, deaths, and marriages.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.721

Item type

Themes

Social History
Religion

Material

Width

25.5000 cm

Height or length

32 cm

Depth

2 cm

Year

Statement of significance

historic, scientific

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

Shire of Toodyay

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