A well-preserved example of this scarce polyglot Bible in English printed for Samuel Bagster with over 60,000 parallel references, and a preface by Thomas Chevalier.
'Bagster was determined to meet the need for inexpensive polyglot bibles. A Hebrew Bible and Septuagint, both in foolscap octavo, soon appeared, but the production of English bibles was a monopoly in the United Kingdom, confined to the king's printers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. However, the patent did not apply to bibles with printed notes' (ODNB).
First edition, third printing; foolscap 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm); contemporary ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper verso; contemporary straight-grain black morocco, blind-stamped, title in gilt to spine, original silver clasps and corner-pieces, all edges gilt, minor wear to extremities, a few light marks to boards, very good.
