FINELY BOUND IRISH BIBLE WITH A CHARMING CONTEMPORARY GIFT INSCRIPTION
The holy bible Containing the Old Testament and the new: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues, And With the former Translation diligently compar'd & revis'd By his Mats. special Command and Appointed to be read in Churches.
Dublin.
Printed by Boulter Grierson printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1758.
First Boulter Grierson edition.
[1296]pp, bound with the Apocrypha, which follows a separate register (A-I8, K4); title page is engraved, with a divisional NT title. With a charming manuscript gift inscription (see below) dated 1767 to verso the final leaf of Apocrypha, and a neat manuscript correction to PP4r. ESTC T91957. Herbert 1123.
[Bound with:] [PSALTER - BRADY, N. TATE, N.]. A New Version of the psalms of david, Fitted to the tunes used in churches. Dublin. Printed by Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1759. [80]pp. ESTC T90715.
8vo. Beautifully bound in richly gilt-tooled nineteenth-century burgundy morocco. A.E.G, with elaborate diced gauffering to edges, decorated paper endpapers, and a leather book-label of Frances Maria Preston, dated 1850, to FEP. Slightly rubbed to extremities, a couple of indentations to upper board, else a fine copy.
[Bound with:] [PSALTER - BRADY, N. TATE, N.]. A New Version of the psalms of david, Fitted to the tunes used in churches. Dublin. Printed by Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1759. [80]pp. ESTC T90715.
8vo. Beautifully bound in richly gilt-tooled nineteenth-century burgundy morocco. A.E.G, with elaborate diced gauffering to edges, decorated paper endpapers, and a leather book-label of Frances Maria Preston, dated 1850, to FEP. Slightly rubbed to extremities, a couple of indentations to upper board, else a fine copy.
A particularly choice copy, handsomely presented and in remarkably fresh condition, of the first edition of the Bible to be printed in Dublin by Hugh Boulter Grierson (d.1771), who had inherited the patent that his half-brother, George Grierson (1680?–1753), had held since 1732. Boulter was later himself awarded a forty year patent in 1766.
The lengthy gift inscription in opposite the New Testament title marks the feat of memory of a seven year old child, the grandson of Revd. William Crowe (b.1693), Church of Ireland priest, Dean of Clonfert 1745-66.
and reads as follows:
The Gift
of
The Revd Dean Crowe
to his
Beloved Grand Child
Emilia Evans
which he gives her
in Testimony
of his Regard for her
on account of her
Sweetness of temper
and
Amiable Dispoition
But Chiefly
as
A Reward for her
Diligence & Progress
in
the Holy Scriptures
Having got by Heart
the
First Seventeen Chapters
of Proverbs
Since the First of Last January
This being the Seventh year
of her
age
Augusth. the 24, 1767.
Willm. Crowe.
£ 2,500.00
Antiquates Ref: 32529
The lengthy gift inscription in opposite the New Testament title marks the feat of memory of a seven year old child, the grandson of Revd. William Crowe (b.1693), Church of Ireland priest, Dean of Clonfert 1745-66.
and reads as follows:
The Gift
of
The Revd Dean Crowe
to his
Beloved Grand Child
Emilia Evans
which he gives her
in Testimony
of his Regard for her
on account of her
Sweetness of temper
and
Amiable Dispoition
But Chiefly
as
A Reward for her
Diligence & Progress
in
the Holy Scriptures
Having got by Heart
the
First Seventeen Chapters
of Proverbs
Since the First of Last January
This being the Seventh year
of her
age
Augusth. the 24, 1767.
Willm. Crowe.
