The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. With arguments prefixed to the different books; and moral and theological observations at the end of every chapter: composed by the Reverend Mr Ostervald, Professor of Divinity, and one of the ministers of the Church at Neufchatel in Swisserland [sic]. /
Scott, James,-approximately 1786,binder.StEdNL: Bdg.s.72? & Bdg.s.599
Ostervald, Jean Frédéric,1663-1747.
Edinburgh: : printed by Colin Macfarquhar. Sold at his printing-office, and by the booksellers in town and country.,
M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
No Apocrypha.
The New Testament has a separate titlepage.
Final leaf = Dd4 (OT).
With the text of the Authorised version.
The NT has separate register and titlepage.
Darlow & Moule 1205
ESTC
MS note at front in the hand of George G. Napier states that the set is from the library at Mertoun House near St. Boswells in the Scottish Borders and was sold at auction in 1912 in Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, prior to the sale of the House by the Scott family to John Egerton, Viscount Brackley (later 4th Earl of Ellesmere).
In red morocco binding possibly by James Scott of Edinburgh (Loudon Amb 2).
In green morocco wallet bindings attributed to James Scott of Edinburgh (not recorded in Loudon (NLS no. JS 1.5)).
Edinburgh Scotland.