256 printed pages in gatherings of 8. 14 plates as called for by Adomeit at pages 10, 25, 52, 58, 74, 93, 122, 127, 143, 151, 173, 218, 221 & 247. 2 title-pages, the second at page 148. All edges gilt. Original marbled endpapers. Contemporary ink owner's inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1824. Provenance: William George Pickering. Blank leaf after page 256 excised. 30 x 47 mm. Original gilt black morocco; centre of covers has red oval onlay with sacred monogram of a cross and initials 'JHS' with minuscule angels' heads, encircled with golden rays, elaborate gilt tooled borders and intricate corner-pieces; spine in three compartments with densely hand-tooled gilt designs. Very slight rubbing, generally in very good condition. The black morocco bound copies are considerably less common than those in brown calf and those in red moroccco. Much scarcer and rarer imprint than the later 1780 published Newbery thumb-bible. Exceedingly scarce abridged children's Bible in its original binding, Hariss's "Bible in Miniature" is the second of its kind in England, preceded only by the 1727 "Biblia" printed for R. Wilkin (the date being altered by hand to 1728 in many copies). It was re-published by Harris in 1774 and in this 1775 edition. Adomeit, B23 (lists copies at six locations). Bondy, 33-4. Roscoe, J28. This edition not in Spielmann. Not in Stone, Snuff-boxful. Welsh, 1009. OCLC, 973592767. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (Auckland).