Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 12, 1845, vol. 1, no. 15, p. ??

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SERIALS AND ILLUSTRATED WORKS.

MARTIN’S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE. No. 3.

THE plate accompanying the present issue of this superb work is a highly finished engraving in the line manner from a classical picture of Hagar and Ishmael. We must repeat once more the testimony that we have already borne to the merits of this edition of the Bible, which we are happy to find has been sustained by the universal opinion of the press. It is unfortunately, quite a matter of course, to puff an illustrated edition of the scriptures, and many have by such unworthy means gained a wide circulation. But we shall never lend our columns for any such mercenary purpose, arid when we pronounce Martin's edition of the Bible the most beautiful, the most complete, and the cheapest, considering its excellence, that has ever been issued in this country, we do but express our deliberate and sincere belief. There is delight in the mere contemplation of the beauty of the typography, the generous margin which surrounds the text, and in the delicate, but fires texture of the paper. Taken altogether, [page 227:] even in these days of cheap publishing, it is a miracle of cheapness.