Calumet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible: with the Biblical Fragments; by the Late Charles Taylor. Illustrated with Numerous Maps and Other Engravings. Eighth Edition. In Five Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841.
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Provenance:
Handwritten bookplate reading "These Volumes were presented by the hands of the Rev. John Blackburn to Mr John Pitman on the occasion of his removal from Islington to Hackney at a Special Meeting held on Thursday Evening Oct 30: 1845 as a Humble Memorial of the esteem and gratitude of the Church of Christ assembling at Claremont Chapel Pentonville."
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Size: 230 x 282 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, frontis, t.p., i-xx, 796pp.]; [half title, t.p., 922pp., 1pp.]; [half title, t.p., iii-vii, 776pp.]; [half title, t.p., i-v, 771pp.]; [half title, t.p., 2pp., 1ff., 175 plates, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., 3 maps, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., map, 1ff., 4 maps]
Half brown calf over cloth backed boards with gilt titles in compartments to spines between raised bands. Bindings rubbed with unevenly sunned boards and some cracks to backstrips. All boards attached with rubbing along joints and some hinges cracked or starting. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned, and top edges darkened as often. Bookplate attached to front pastedown in volume one. Pencil ownership inscription to ffep in all volumes, with an extra pencil inscription to the ffep in volume one. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Slight shelf lean, and a more prominent shelf lean to volume four which doesn't stand upright on its own. Plates with some foxing and occasional damp staining.
