[Regency Binding].
The Holy Bible,
The Holy Bible,
containing the Old and the New Testaments: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.
Stock Code 123625
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1828.
With provenance for the antiquary Matthew Gregson (1749-1824) who amassed a library at his house on St Anne's Street, Liverpool. He was elected a member of the Society of the Arts in 1801, and was in 1803 awarded a gold medal '"for his very great attention to render useful the articles remaining after public fires". He had shown that paint, varnish, and printers' ink could be produced from burnt grain and sugar'. (ODNB).
24mo (12.5 x 7.5 cm); MS notes in pen and pencil to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary straight-grained green morocco, covers panelled in gilt with an ovoid-design, gilt spine in 3 compartments, all edges gilt, minor wear, near fine.
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