The Macklin Bible - Follow the Ys (Wives)
There are no coincidences. Happened to be at a church function and during the service the minster brought up the Macklin Bible saying that the multi-volume Bible printed in the year 1791 is renowned for it’s amazing art. Of interest is that “the artists often selected scripture texts that featured women, who were the nurturers of religious education for the family in late 18th century England. “ http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54113
Now, this was not a book for the average family as Macklin’s publications “cost an estimated £30,000 in its day” “As you can imagine, this luxurious production was incredibly expensive even in its own day. Among subscribers to the enormous production was the royal family.” https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/bibles-dont-get-bigger-macklin-bible-1800/ At this link there is a small screen shot of a portion of the subscribers list but it’s not the complete list. I tried to research online for a complete list of subscribers, but was unable to find any documentation, though I intuit that we might find a number of the usual suspects from the Bloodlines. Women of this social class during that period were rarely involved with the raising of their children in a hands on manner so I am not so sure that women were featured prominently because they were “nurturers of religious education for the family.” Were they featured prominently because they were priestesses?
In researching this Bible, I thought the attached mention of one of the book’s artists, de Loutherbourg, in the book, Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin, very curious. de Loutherbourg is noted to have had an interest in the occult.
Anyway, please feel free to draw your own conclusions and research further if there is interest. I’ll continue to dig.