Holy Bible

Item date: 1726
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £14,500
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A magnificent example of a Scottish herring-bone binding, in fine condition. A great variety of binding tools were used on the binding: stars, flowers, rounders, leaves and spear-heads, including some tools not traced elsewhere. Illustrated at p.20 of AR

Item Provenance
Leather label on inside front board recording the books presentation to Sarah Thomson on her marriage to Robert Cross, Glasgow 1738