Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), engraved title featuring Moses & David and the Evangelists by Isaac Taylor with triple gilt-ruled border, printed in double column, cropped at foot omitting Notes, very attractively bound in early 19th century dark blue morocco with diced boards within onlaid red roan borders elaborately tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments of gilt circles and dots with red roan labels and small onlaid discs, g.e., pretty pink moiré endpapers with delicate border of vines with bunches of grapes, very slight rubbing to edges and gilt at lower outer corners but an excellent copy, [Herbert 1249] 12mo, by J.W.Pasham, 1776.

⁂ A similar binding to that on a 1653 Bible sold in these rooms on 28th March for £950 (lot 31).
This Pasham Bible included 5 lines of Notes at the foot of each page "leaving a broad space below the text, so that they may be cut off, if desired, by the binder [as here]". Herbert