The holy bible containing the old and new testaments: translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his majesty's special command..
Oxford.
Printed at the Oxford University Press, 1869.
8vo.
[unpaginated and can't find a copy]. Contemporary blind-stamped black morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board with the initials 'C. E. L.'. Rubbed and marked, with some bumping to corners. Inked ownership inscriptions 'Lowther', 'C.E. Lowther', and 'Charlie Lowther, July 3rd 1869' to FEP, FFEP and first blank fly-leaf respectively. Manuscript doodles of the crucifixion to FEP. Leaves lighly browned, light spotting and scuffing to endpapers.
An apparently unrecorded Victorian edition of the Holy Bible, printed by the Oxford University Press, and bound for its young owner, the ten year old Hon. Charles Edwin Lowther (1859-1888), son of Henry Lowther, Third Earl of Lonsdale. His manuscript scribbles of Christ on the crucifix can still be seen, doodled on the front endpaper.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 34657
