Splendid gilt-tooled crushed full black morocco with gold lettering on spines. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Ribbon marker.
Title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Text within double red ruled box. This remarkable edition of the Four Gospels contains 128 fine engravings by Alexandre Bida, the celebrated French painter of the Romantic period (28 originals by Bida, and 100 after illustrations by the most renowned artists of the time, such as Henriette Browne, Bodmer, Bracquemond, Chaplin, Deblois, Flameng, L. Gaucherel, Gilbert, Ed. Girardet, Haussoullier, Ed. Hédouin, Massard, Mouilleron, Célestin Nanteuil, and Veyrassat). Next to Gustave Doré, Alexandre Bida is the world's best-known Bible illustrator of his time