MID-19TH CENTURY KING JAMES BIBLE, HANDSOMELY BOUND
BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh: Cowan and Company, 1851. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full dark blue polished calf, gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, all edges gilt.
Victorian edition of the venerable King James Bible, two octavo volumes in very handsome contemporary full calf-gilt.
First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the impact of the King James Version on piety, language and literature is incalculable. Without Apocrypha. Ink ownership inscription of James Kirkpatrick of Kildrum, County Donegal, dated 1859.
A handsomely bound copy in fine condition.