•  Disbound. Inner edge with small nicks; very unobtrusive creasing to lower corners (from the original press run?); otherwise in beautiful condition.  (25835)

Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title. All edges gilt.

•  NSTC B2162; Lowndes, Bibliographer’s Manual, 2002 (for 1798 Tattersall ed.); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 1269 (likewise). Binding as above, spine and outer edge of front cover darkened, joints and edges with moderate shelf wear. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate and donor bookplate; front free endpaper reverse with inked ownership inscription and pencilled inscription dated 1814; title-page with small inked initials in upper outer corner. Light foxing. In fact quite nice.

The 24 wood engravings illustrating the present example are identical to those found in the Phinney thumb Bibles (which Adomeit says are “distinctive as the majority of the cuts are portraits, which Stone suggests are portraits of neighboring farmers”) — and indeed, this entire offering appears to have been pirated from Phinney by Bolles, one of three New London publishers known for such practices.

•  Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A71; this ed. not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title; slightly sprung, covers each with one small spot of worming, minor wear. Frontispiece recto with early pencilled inscription. Pages with some light spotting and occasional edge nicks. A nice example of this sort of production.  (25201)

•  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)

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

Provenance:  Presentation copy, front covers gilt-stamped “Presented to Samuel A. Crozer, by the teachers of the Upland Baptist Sunday School”; front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Samuel Aldrich Crozer. Crozer was the son of John P. and Abigail Crozer, who endowed the Crozer Theological Seminary (now part of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School); he served as president of the seminary's Board of Trustees and erected the chapel of the Upland Baptist church.

Binding:  Signed binding by Lewis & Sons of London: Black morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spines gilt extra, front covers with gilt-stamped presentation as above; board edges gilt-dotted, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.

•  This ed. not in Darlow & Moule (see 1193 for 1855 ed.).   Binding as above, very minor wear to corners and spine, overall bright and beautiful. Two vols. only, lacking first vol. of O.T. Front pastedowns each with private bookplates as above; then ex-library with stamps/annotations variously placed and of various generations, back pastedowns and free endpapers with paper adhesions; properly deaccessioned. One frontis. map with tear along one fold, neatly repaired from rear. A very few scattered small spots of light foxing in one volume, pages otherwise clean.  (26128)

•  Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded along edges and spine. Front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Pages faintly age-toned; in fact, a very clean nice copy.

•  Not in Darlow & Moule.   Binding as above, corners and spine extremities mildly rubbed, a band at top of back cover a bit lightened in color. As with many examples of this publication, the volume's own considerable weight has partially cracked the front joint; however, with careful use (and storage on the volume's back, not its lower edge), this damage should not quickly progress. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped (NOT rubber-stamped); no other markings. Clean and beautiful.  (26123)

Provenance:  Front cover gilt-stamped “Miles R. Bowers”; presentation leaf inscribed to Bowers by the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Royersford, PA.

•  Limp morocco-covered wrappers, front cover with gilt-stamped American flag, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and in very good condition, contained in its original cardboard box with publisher's label, box showing only minor wear. Pages clean.  (6105)