Beschreibung:

BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible . Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1758. 12° (135 x 74mm), woodcut royal arms on title and part-title to New Testament (quire A browned at head, variable light offsetting and occasional spotting), contemporary Edinburgh ochre morocco gilt, covers with lobed panels enclosing a herring-bone pattern of turnip tools with a central star tool with 'crown-and-thistle' tools to left and right, 2 'half-pear' tools on either side of the panels, surrounded by floral, foliate, 'crown-and-thistle' and other tools, spine compartments with floral and foliate tools divided by saltire crosses, gilt edges, Dutch floral paper pastedowns (spine slightly faded, extremities very lightly rubbed, front free endpaper and flyleaf excised), modern morocco-backed box. Provenance : extensive genealogies of the French and Turner families on endpapers -- Frances French (early inscription on title) -- Dorothy Platt (ownership signature). [Sale, Sotheby's New York, 11-12 December 1984, lot 353.] A FINE EDINBURGH 'HERRING-BONE' BINDING. This binding is very similar to a binding on The Holy Bible (London: 1774) in J.R. Abbey's collection, and certainly from the same workshop (G. Hobson English Bindings ... in the Library of J.R. Abbey (London: 1940), no. 82); both bindings have very similar borders and panels, and use a number of the same tools on the boards, particularly the 'half-pear' tool (which is hatched, rather than filled with pointillé work, as other examples are) and the uncommon 'crown-and-thistle' tool. Hobson cites two other bindings from the same workshop on small two-volume Bibles printed in Edinburgh in 1743 and 1748 (additionally, a binding on this edition of the Bible (quite possibly this copy, described as 'a similar binding' to Hobson no.82) was sold at Sotheby's London, 25-26 July 1977, lot 117). In this copy the 'The Psalms of David in metre' (3H1-3L6) noted by ESTC are not bound in, though this copy agrees with DMH. DMH 1124; ESTC T91949.