The Self-Interpreting Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments. To Which are Annexed, an Extensive Introduction - Marginal References and Illustrations - A Summary of the Several Books - A Paraphrase of the Most Obscure or Important Parts - An Analysis of the Contents of Each Chapter - Explanatory Notes and Evangelical Reflections. By the Rev. John Brown. With Many Additional Notes, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory. From Scott. Henry, Haweis, &c. &c. And an Original Memoir of the Author. London: William Mackenzie, c.1860
A STUNNING ANTIQUE KING JAMES BIBLE IN A REMARKABLE VERY FINE BINDING WITH BEAUTIFUL COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT!
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Undated title page, but the National Library of Scotland and WorldCat suggest the dates of 1860 and 1861; the referenced copies posses the same pagination, but the WorldCat reference has a different number of plates (one of the plates has a date of 1861 which is not present in this copy), and thus this seems more likely to be the 1860 imprint.
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Provenance:
The family register has ink inscriptions spanning across the four pages, and includes an ownership inscription on the first blank reading "Emily Holmes ? Park ? January 12 th 1883".
The register begins with a marriage entry, handwritten in gothic style font, reading "William Roberts & Emily Holmes. at Rushall. Staffs. on July 2nd 1885. Witnessed by these persons. J. D. James Curate Charles C Thomas & Hannah Garbelt".
The next entry discusses the births of the couple as well as others in multiple hands, reading "William Roberts February 28th 1860", Emily Roberts nee Holmes March 17th 1863", "Edith Emily Sept 16th 1886 Thursday evening at 9"45", "Lillian May 5 1889", &"John William June 15th 1891 ? 9 a.m."
There is only one registered death in the register, it reads "John William Roberts Dec 9th 1881 Aged 5 months".
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Size: 260 x 327 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[2ff. (family register), frontis, engraved title, t.p., iii-lix, pp.1-826 (OT), t.p., pp.829-1153 (NT), pp.1154-1168 (collections)] - 53 plates (not including the frontispiece and engraved title page)
Full morocco with beautiful gilt tooling and blind stamping to spine and both boards. Small bumps to the backstrip around the raised bands on spine, else spine in very good condition with very minor rubbing, more so to extremities, shows nicely on the shelf. Both boards securely attached with very minor rubbing along joints. Boards with minor rubbing to edges and few superficial scratches. Lighter circular mark to the front board, see photo. Very minor shelf and edge wear, more so to corners. Binding secure with no shelf lean. Page edges all gilt with few superficial scratches. Lovely turn-ins. Ink and pencil inscriptions to family register pages at the front. Engraved title hand coloured. Very small ink mark to the top of the engraved title page. Text block very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Some plates are coloured while others are black and white. Some plates offset onto pages opposite.
[MMSID 9916096933804341; OCLC 1113307396].
