Accession number
PML 252945
Published
Glasgow : David Bryce and Son ; London : Henry Frowde : Oxford University Press Warehouse, [1911?]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"... the earliest complete miniature Bible, was reprinted in 1901, the date no longer on the title page as was the case with the first issue ... This date which in its original form reads in print eighteen hundred and ninety has been altered in ink to the 29th day of March nineteen hundred and one before it was handed over the to lithographers"--Cf. Bondy, page 109.
"A later reprint bound in blind-stamped leather has on the spice the inscription 'Coronation Bible' and the date 1911, this time in honour of the crowning of King George V"--Cf. Bondy, page 110.
Color portrait of King George V and Queen Mary.
Library's copy housed in red morocco clamshell box (95 mm).
"A later reprint bound in blind-stamped leather has on the spice the inscription 'Coronation Bible' and the date 1911, this time in honour of the crowning of King George V"--Cf. Bondy, page 110.
Color portrait of King George V and Queen Mary.
Library's copy housed in red morocco clamshell box (95 mm).
Description
876 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 44 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt, gilded edges. Bound by Francoise Prado.
Classification
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