Taylor's Calmet. Dictionary of the Bible. 1847

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Holy Bible; with The Biblical Fragments; by The Late Charles Taylor. Illustrated with Numerous Maps and Other Engravings. Ninth Edition. In Five Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1847. 
 
Five volumes in 19th century full brown leather ecclesiastical bindings, blind tooled on boards, with gilt on spine. Raised bands and red labels on spines. Leather scuffed. Spines slightly faded and involved by a bit of red rot. Joints/hinges strong. Red page edges. Marbled end papers. Library stamps (on front matter, final page of each volume, and verso of each plate) and book plates in each volume. Some very mild toning, mostly of first few leaves, and some mild foxing of plates/maps, but otherwise clean, bright, and tight throughout all five volumes. Frontis piece in first volume. 
 
Vol 1: 796 pages. Vol 2: 923 pages (includes various tables such as weights, measures, etc). Vol 3: 776 pages. Vol 4: 771 pages. Vol 5: 183 plates and 19 maps. 
 
Dom Antoine Augustin Calmet (February 26, 1672 –  October 25, 1757)  was a Benedictine who first published his dictionary in French in 1722. It was tremendously popular, was translated into numerous languages, and went through many editions in each of those languages. Later English editors, for example, after Calmet, included D’Oyly (1732), Taylor (1798), and Robinson (1832). Taylor’s Calmet was popular well into the second half of the 19th century. 
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