The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New:
translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.
Stock Code 110964
Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, printers to the university, 1799
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A sweet King James pocket bible from the turn of the nineteenth century, in a beautiful red morocco gilt binding, with two early female ownership inscriptions.
12mo (14 x 8 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpapers, old bookseller label to front pastedown, NT title-page; contemporary red morocco, double gilt-ruled, stars in corner-pieces, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt, corners and edges slightly rubbed, a few nicks to spine, but head and tail caps intact, and internally very clean, a handsome copy.
Cf.Herbert 1439; DM 980.
12mo (14 x 8 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpapers, old bookseller label to front pastedown, NT title-page; contemporary red morocco, double gilt-ruled, stars in corner-pieces, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt, corners and edges slightly rubbed, a few nicks to spine, but head and tail caps intact, and internally very clean, a handsome copy.
Cf.Herbert 1439; DM 980.
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