(Diss, Holy Bible.) A Victorian Bible, printed by Eyre & Spo...

Hammer

£50

(Diss, Holy Bible.) A Victorian Bible, printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, c.1875, presented to Mr Terah Nicholson (1796-1879) "..With a purse of thirty Sovereigns.." by inhabitants of Diss, Norfolk, Easter 1875, for his services as Parish Clerk of Diss for a term of fifty years, gilt ruled and lettered lozenge shaped morocco presentation panel atteched to front pastedown, 1879 In Memoriam funeral card of Terah Nicholson, interred at Diss Cemetery, August 25th 1879, loosely inserted, with contemporary news cutting loosely inserted, large thick 4to (33 x 28cm), original full black leather gilt, blocked in blind to covers, all edges gilt, brass clasp, inner dentelles gilt, generally VGC commensurate with age