(MINIATURE BOOKS) The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New

Sale 2143 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 780

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500

ITTY BITTY BIBLE (MINIATURE BOOKS.) The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments. Frontispiece, magnifying glass in pocket of rear endpaper. 42x30mm, original red roan; hinge splitting before title, affixed by a metal chain to a wooden lectern, 60x130x60mm, label on base present but slightly rubbed. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, n.d., [1911]

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

According to Bondy, this cost 3 shillings and sixpence, and was produced "for the tercentenary commemoration of the Authorised Version of the English Bible, 1611-1911." He says "This great curiosity...has remained very popular with collectors to this day." The lectern was apparently intended to be a "facsimile of what may be seen in Hereford and other cathedrals and parish churches all over the country"--pages 109-110.