THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED; WITH CANNE'S MARGINAL NOTES AND REFERENCES. TO WHICH ARE ADDED AN INDEX: AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF ALL THE NAMES IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS WITH THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS, TABLE OF SCRIPTURE WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND COINS, &c

Quarto, 11' x 9". Rebound in handsome black cloth, with simple gilt lettering across the spine (Holy Bible). New endpapers. pp. 632 (through the end of the Old Testament -- Malachai); Followed by the Apocrypha which numbers i through cxlvii (147). Followed by 5 pages of FAMILY RECORDS, 4 of which contain handwritten records of births, deaths, marriages of the following. people: William Sheppard, Mary Terrill, William Stretch, Sarah Ann Sheppard (Sarah Ann Stretch) William Sheppard (Infant), David Sheppard, Robert Sheppard, Eliza Hinds (daughter of William and Ann Hinds). 829 (xx). Main Title page out of order, and is mounted within the Book of Luke Chapter XXIII, between Verses 10 & 11. Steel engravings throughout. A HANDWRITTEN decorative paper label, 2 1/2"x 1 1/2" is mounted at the conclusion of the Apocrypha (cxlvii) and reads: "WILLIAM SHEPPARD BOUGHT IN THEYEAR 1834". Pages age-tanned but very flexible. Some cellophane tape repairs. Two sewn-in silk ribbons. This is a big, sturdy, King James bible, owned by a nineteenth-century American family, which had obviously been read and referred to and loved so much that it was clearly falling apart, before it was so mercifully rescued; someone took the time and went to the expense of having it rebound. Handsome, usable, and while care must be taken when using, One no longer has to fear for it falling apart in one's hands.