HOLY BIBLE - AUTHORISED VERSION - BAGSTER BRASS CLASP BINDING - IN ORIGINAL OAK BOX . - The Miniature Quarto Bible - The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, with introductory and concluding remarks to each book : a general introduction: the parallel passages of Scott, Canne...

London : Samuel Bagster and Sons, 15 Paternoster Row, [c. 1870 ?] . 0. A very rare bible in a very good leather binding, together with its original wooden box. 4to. 9.7" x 7.5" x 2.5" [24pp.]/pp.1002/[6pp.]/pp.1005-1338,/[31pp]/pp.58 . A very good original full leather binding. Dark brown calf over thick bevelled boards, intricate blind stamp decoration, and one central engraved brass clasp and hasp, in working order. The engraving to the brass clasp states: "Y.M.C.A. Presented to Mr. James Smith, along with a purse of sovereigns, By The Members Of His Bible Class, on the occasion of his marriage June 4th 1879. (with added family details inserted before the New Testament ).Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt titles: "The Holy Bible" & "Bagster". All page edges bright gilt, with ornate gauffered pattern. Original marbled endpapers, with inner gilt dentelles. Half title states: "The Miniature Quarto Bible." Printed titles at the beginning of the Old Testament; the New Testament; and the Book Of Psalms. Clean English text in double columns and central references. The Bible contains a fold-out chart: 'A table of comparative chronology', and 15 coloured maps engraved by W. Hughes. As is the norm, the books of the Apocrypha are absent. A very good copy of a Victorian clasped bible, preserved in its original velvet-lined oak box. The box measures 11" x 9" x 4" , with a hinged lid, (lacks key). A very rare bible, as it was originally presented in early Victorian society. ** James Hugh Smith was born on 7 October 1845 in Kirkwall, Orkney, his father, John, was 26 and his mother, Janet, was 26. He married Helen Symers Martin on 4 June 1879 in Dundee, Angus. They had three children during their marriage. He died on 14 August 1925 in Dundee, Angus, at the age of 79. Throughout his life he was connected to the Y.M.C.A. in Dundee.

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