Biblia or a Practical Summary of Old & New Testaments. Wilkin, R. St. Paul's Churchyard. Lond[on]. 1728.

[3], 278, [6] pages. 1727 hand corrected to 1728. Adomeit reports that other than this alteration, "there seems to be no difference" between copies with the handwritten dates and those without them. Complete with 16 copperplate engravings, as well as two engraved title pages. Uniform age-toning. Some old stains on preliminary leaves. Some corners slightly worn. Fore-edge of leaf B2 slightly worn at margin with the loss of one printed letter. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges faded  gilt. Original marbled endpapers chipped at edges. Indistinct inscription on verso of frontispiece, dated 1849. 26 x 42 mm. Original brown decorative calf. Two raised bands , gilt pointillé and flower decoration. Acorn flower, and diamond motif decoration on covers, with diamond pointillé corners. Corners worn. Small patch of leather rubbed away at lower edge, revealing original minuscule boards. Adomeit, B16. Bondy, 33. MyrvoldParmente, 58. Welsh, 1003. OCLC, 37219784. WorldCat locates eight copies worldwide. Issued by printer and bookseller Richard Wilkin, this is the first English thumb Bible in prose, all earlier editions having been in verse, and was very popular with children; illustrations in the Wilkin Bible are "vastly superior" to those in the Newbery edition. Indeed, the plain but finely executed depictions of Biblical subjects, such as Noah, Joshua, and the Nativity, are striking for the boldness of their lines. It is for this and other reasons that Bondy considered the Newbery Bible to be "distinctly inferior in most respects" to Wilkin's Bible.