1860 The Holy Bible with a Devotional and Practical Commentary

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding

This enormous Holy Bible was once the property of the Perkins family, with their marriages, births and deaths recorded in the leaves bound to the front of the work, from the 1860s until the 1910s.

This edition with a practical and explanatory commentary on the Old Testament by the Rev. Robert Jamieson, a minister of the Church of Scotland.

Bound in a lavish contemporary leather binding, with metal edges and two functioning metal clasps.

Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.

With thirty-eight illustrative engravings on steel throughout.

A remarkable leather-bound Holy Bible complete with working clasps from the mid-nineteenth century.