https://archive.org/details/bowyer_bible_anthology_images_202607 https://archive.org/details/bowyer_bible_anthology_images_202607 BOWYER BIBLE ANTHOLOGY On October 14, 1840 The Times of London carried the following notice: “There is at present, in the possession of Mrs. Parker of Golden Square, a copy of Macklin’s Bible in forty-five large volumes, illustrated with nearly 7000 engravings from the age of Michael Angelo to that of Reynolds and […]
From: Jan Luyken “De Schriftuurlyke Geschiedenissen en Gelykenissen, Van het nieuwe verbond” (“The Scriptural Stories and Parables of the New Testament”) 1712
Bowyer Bible print 4474. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) expanded his own copy of the Macklin Bible to 45 volumes after acquiring and inserting over 6200 different prints of Biblical events. The Bowyer Bible is now housed in Bolton Museums and Archives. For a presentation of many of these prints see https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where Philip De Vere has created flip-books from Phillip Medhurst’s collection of photos.
Phillip Medhurst 