Bible, English.- The Old Testament [&] New Testament, 7 vol., list of subscribers, 70 engraved plates after Fuseli, Reynolds, West, and others, numerous engraved illustrations, engraved dedication, offsetting, some foxing to plates, heavier in places but largely restricted to margins, contemporary blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, by C. Meyer, covers with decorative fillet and roll borders, spines gilt in compartments, light fading and some rubbing to spines, vol. 7 spine scuffed, some scuffing to joints and extremities, vol. 1 with some splitting to joints but holding firm, g.e., [Herbert 1442], folio, Printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800. ⁂ A good copy of this remarkable edition, "the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled." - DNB. Macklin first announced his plan to publish this lavishly illustrated work in 1789 and devoted the next 11 years of his life to bringing his plans to fruition. He sadly died 5 days after the completion of the final engraving so never lived to see the completed work.