[MINIATURE BOOK]. -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Bible in Miniuture [sic], or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: [Elizabeth] Newberry, 1780. 64mo (41 x 28 mm). Engraved title pages (including second title for the New Testament) and 13 (of 14) engraved plates. (Lacking plate facing p.221.) Original olive green morocco gilt, onlaid red calf ovals with cross and JHS overlaid front and back, marbled endpapers, edges gilt (light wear to corners and joints). Provenance: H. Reeve (ownership inscription, 26 May 1790); William Thorowgood (d. 1877), typographer and type founder (inscription) given to his granddaughter; Lucy Ellen Hibberdine (presentation inscription, 22 November 1860). FIRST EDITION of "the best-known miniature Bible" (Adomeit). THE EARLIEST ISSUE without an imprint on p.256, without a period after the date on the first title page and with parentheses enclosing the page numbers. The binding first appeared on the first edition of Harris' miniature Bible (published 1771, Adomeit B18), and is known in several colors, most commonly red, here in the rarer olive green. Adomeit B26; ESTC T124732. Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois