Three pocket editions of the Holy Bible comprising Samuel Bagster’s English Version of the Polyglot Bible, an 1854 American Bible Society Pearl 18mo edition, and an 1870 Oxford University Press Diamond 24mo edition. All three are bound in full dark morocco leather with gilt spine lettering and blind or gilt-stamped ornamentation. One volume includes a mounted photograph of a child on the front pastedown with an 1869 gift inscription opposite.
Moderately worn; rubbing and chipping to spine ends, joints, and edges; Bagster Bible has chipped front flyleaf with ownership inscription dated 1859; toning to text block edges; scattered interior toning and dampstaining.
Lot 120 in November 2 Virginia Woolf, Hemingway, New York & Connecticut History: Rare Books, Signed Firsts & Ephemera · Bidding open
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