Phillip Medhurst

A Pilgrimage to Truth

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Bowyer Bible print 2462 Head-piece to Nehemiah. Nehemiah cap 11 v 16. Loutherbourg

Robert Bowyer (d.1834) expanded his Macklin Bible with over 6200 prints. He acquired de Loutherbourg’s drawings for the Macklin vignettes and pasted them into his grangerised Bible. The Bowyer Bible is now in Bolton Museum. For a presentation see archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where flip-books have been created from Phillip Medhurst’s photos.

Bowyer Bible print 2460 Tail-piece to Ezra. Ezra cap 3 v 10. Loutherbourg

Robert Bowyer (d.1834) expanded his Macklin Bible with over 6200 prints. He acquired de Loutherbourg’s drawings for the Macklin vignettes and pasted them into his grangerised Bible. The Bowyer Bible is now in Bolton Museum. For a presentation see archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where flip-books have been created from Phillip Medhurst’s photos.