The leather-bound book "The Bible. Books of the Old and New Testaments." Synodal translation

For the first time in Russia, the text of the Bible approved by the Holy Synod (the so-called Synodal Translation) is published with original drawings by Gustave Doré. A talented French artist worked on them for two years for an illustrated edition of the Bible in German; this translation was made by writer and Rabbi Ludwig Philippson. The Bible with engravings based on Dore's drawings, published in 1866, became so popular that a year later the artist's original drawings were published in a separate three-volume volume. They, and not the engravings made on them, are reproduced in this edition.