Name: Auction: Bindings The Holy Bible [and:] The Book of Common Prayer
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 630 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 739&nbsp; Our 21 June&nbsp;Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs&nbsp;sale began in Edinburgh before setting off on a tour around the world and back through time, with stops in the Antarctic with Shackleton and Scott, Mecca and Medina with Burton, and the Mediterranean as envisioned by a 17th-century maker of portolan charts. After a century-long layover in India, bidders relived Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen before glimpsing the rarefied world of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in a remarkable collection of effects belonging to their personal bodyguard David Storrier. Returning to Scotland we visit Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta before celebrating the Scottish Enlightenment with works by Smith, Hume and their illustrious peers. Browse the collection below.&nbsp;

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London: George E. Eyre and Andrew [BCP: William] Spottiswoode, c.1847. 2 works, 12mo (13.6 x 8cm), contemporary relievo-style bindings of embossed black papier-mâché, each cover showing Christ standing with right hand raised in blessing against intricate background of gothic tracery, foliate scrolls and flowers, edges gilt gauffered to flower-and-diamond pattern, comb-marbled endpapers, Bible signatures A-2X12 BCP A-X12 Z6, BCP with an edition of the Psalms bound in at rear (dated 1847, sigs. A-C12 D6), both works neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, a few hairline cracks and small areas of loss to bindings, Bible with damp-staining to lower fore corners of prelims, title-page with restored paper-loss in gutter costing a few letters of text, BCP with occasional light spotting and staining, sigs. I7-8 partially stuck together

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The Holy Bible [and:] The Book of Common Prayer

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