Provenance: Late 20th-century bookplate of Michael Zinman on rear pastedown. Booklabel affixed to front free endpaper reads, “Wm. Henry Scott[o?]s. Property left to him by his mother who departed this life April the third 1817"; this over a handwritten inscription that can be read with a mirror from the verso, “William Henry Scott's / [word not deciphered] Biblia.”

•  Hills 144; not in O'Callaghan; not in Shaw & Shoemaker.   Contemporary full sheep, spine with four raised bands forming compartments; perfectly plain with no labels. Occasional spots of foxing only; a good copy.  (4762)

16 woodcuts

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription, Nancy Stone[r] or Stone[ 's].

•  Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A45; Shoemaker 1613; Welch, American Children’s Books, 860.5.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and foliate decorations; moderately rubbed overall. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Front fly-leaves torn and creased, first few leaves each with small hole (touching frontispiece image and a few letters, not obscuring sense). One leaf with outer edge chipped, touching several letters. Foxing and spots of staining; some corners bumped. A sound little volume of the type.  (29324)

•  O’Callaghan 213; Hills 765; not in Herbert. Straight-grained roan, covers gilt-ruled and spine gilt extra; rubbed, especially on spine, and corners bumped. Pp. 5–6 and 229–30 chipped on lower outer corner, with loss of part of page number from the former. Free endpapers chipped with loss; title-page partially detached in the gutter. Some old dog-ears, light foxing and occasional brown spots, and occasional light waterstaining. An attractive, solid little American Testament.

Binding:  Contemporary black morocco, heavily blind-stamped and covers further graced by central gilt-stamped cartouches touched with red and green enameled highlights. Spine with similar blind- and gilt-stamping, highlighted in red and green. All edges gilt.

•  Not in Herbert.   Binding as above, minimal rubbing to edges and extremities, gilt lightly rubbed in a few areas, corners bumped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1846. Back free endpaper with spot of dampstaining partially adhered to back pastedown and offset onto last leaf of text. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. A little knockout.  (21996)

Binding:  Publisher's boards of papier maché and plaster, formed using a metal mold and colored black, creating a gothic “carved wood binding.” Title blind-embossed on black roan spine. All edges gilt.

McLean states of the English edition of this work that “It was . . . the first of the so-called 'papier maché' bindings, contrived to look like carved ebony.” This first American edition bears the first “papier maché” binding accomplished in the U.S.

•  Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 231; McLean, Victorian Book Design (second edition), pp. 99, 210; Maggs Bros., Bookbinding in the British Isles, part 2, 245; Abbey, Life, 222.   Very nicely preserved copy with just a few small cracks in the binding, leaves expertly reattached/recased; spine intact with surface of front cover a little rubbed in one small portion. Unlike the broken, chipped, and damaged copies we have seen, this is a treasurable exemplar. Housed in a quarter red cloth clamshell case with tan cloth sides and black leather gilt spine label.  (30100)

The three versions are printed in triple-column format with notes below.

The appendix is Conant's The meaning and use of baptizein, New York, 1860, with its own title-page and pagination.

•  Publisher's textured brownish-green cloth, spine sunned. Light wear to board edges. Ex-library: paper call number label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, perforation-stamps, inked accession(?) number, charge pocket (at rear). A very clean copy, the paper very good.  (27442)

•  Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15152)