Antique – The Holy Bible ~ Containing the Old and New Testaments (1868)

ANTIQUE HOLY BIBLE ~ 155 YEARS OLD, containing the Old and New Testaments.  Translated out of the original Tongues; and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. BRIGHT LECTERN BIBLE IN ORIGINAL BINDING – Date Published;  1868

Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode; Printers to the Queen’s (Victoria) Most Excellent Majesty (as noted on the title page, please see photograph).  Warehouses: London, 43, Fleet Street; Edinburgh, 16 Elder Street; New York, 626 Broadway

Unpaginated (Over 1,200 pages) 28.5 x 22.5 x 6cm ~ 3.1kg unpacked.  With deeply embossed, publisher’s strongly bound brown Full Morocco Leather covers (gothic window pattern) with Gilt Holy Bible Title embossed into the spine.  Contains colour maps of ‘Palestine, in the time of Our Saviour’, ‘Canaan, as divided among the Tribes’, Egypt and The Sinai Peninsula illustrating the Journeys of the Israelites to the Promised Land‘ and ‘The Eastern Mediterranean, illustrating The Travels of Saint Paul’.

Corners slightly worn, there is some slight wear on the leather covers from rubbing.  Slight wear in corner of front blank pages.  Some foxing and aged spotting, mainly to first and last blank pages.  All typed pages are in excellent condition.  The Bible has a fully intact and robust spine.  All imperfections are to be expected in a book of over 150-year-old.  In the Family Register, the oldest birth recorded is for 19 December 1819 and a marriage recorded 14 December 1867.  A loose sheet of paper inserted in this section, details deaths in 1784, 1832 and 1849 (see photograph).