The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By his Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in churches..
Thomson, Sarah,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.151(1)
Cross, Robert,-1739,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.151(1)
Welsh, John,of Craigenputtock,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.16
Fairley, John A.(John Alexander),1862-former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.16
Stewart, Anne,active 1818,former owner.StEdNL: Hall.169.c(1)
Stewart, James,Keeper of His Majesty's Wardrobe in Scotland,former owner.StEdNL: Hall.169.c(1)
Tawse, John,1787-1861,presenter.StEdNL: Hall.169.c(1)
Hope, Charles,1st Earl of Hopetoun,1681-1742,former owner.StEdNLdg.m.46(1)
Spence, David,-1746,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.541(1)
Lambe, A.J.,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.541(1)
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.541(1)
Edinburgh, : Printed by John Baskett, printer to the king's most excellent majesty.,
M.DCC.XXVI[1726]..
The Apocrypha is in the list of books but is separately signed.
The N.T. has a separate titlepage.
Last leaf of O.T. = 2U4, last leaf of N.T. = 3L4.
The index is separately signed.
ESTC
Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible,
Ownership bookplate on front pastedown: "Helen Simpson 18th March 1741" and "Ex libris John Fairley MDCCCCIX". Tipped in the recto of the front free endpaper are copies of letters, dated 1924, to John Fairley from David Hay Fleming and Alexander Carlyle. On the recto of the front flyfleaf is an inscription by John Welsh of Craigenputtock of his marriage to Betty Hunter with a list of their children and their dates of birth. This is followed by a note of the birth of their granddaughter Jane Baillie Welsh. On the verso of the last leaf of the Old testament is a list of the children of John Welsh the elder, Jane Baillie Welsh's great-grandfather, with the dates of their birth.
Leather label inside front board reads: Sarah Thomson. 29th March 1738.  Ink inscriptions, 18th-century on blank leaf before title-page record the marriage of Sarah Thomson and Robert Cross, the births of their children and Robert Cross's death.
Manuscript inscription on the first flyleaf "Anne Stewart 31st January 1818". Bookplate of "James Stewart Esq.r Keeper of His Majesty's Wardrobe in Scotland" on the verso of the title page. A letter dated 31 Jan 1818 of John Tawse SSC forwarding the volume to Anne Stewart, together with two scraps of paper containing a prayer and a list of readings were formerly loosely attached and are now at NLS manuscript Acc.5161.
Extra parchment leaf has been bound in between the end of the Old Testament and the New Testament (the New Testament having its own title page). This leaf, dated April 23 1728, contains a calligraphic dedication from Matthias Buchinger (Mathew Buckinger) to David Spence, first secretary of the Bank of Scotland, the text having been drawn/written in ink by Buchinger. On the verso of the leaf Spence has written some text about Buchinger, including his physical dimensions. He has got several witnesses to sign his statement that Buchinger had indeed written the other side of the leaf. This particular copy was later presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by one A.J. Lambe in 1861 (as recorded in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries for 1862), then donated to NLS in 1949.
Bound in black goatskin, with gilt tooling combining elements from the herring-bone and wheel designs.  Many different tools are used, such as stars, flowers, spear-heads; the spine is tooled to a saltire design; there are gilt decorated endpapers signed: Apolonia Maiestderin.
Bound in black goatskin tooled in gold to a herringbone design; alternate panels of the spine have red goatskin onlays, with the stamp in gold on the central panel, and gilt edges with foredge decoration of the Hopetoun arms in black. Motto: At spes infracta. Coronet: Earl.  Arms: On a chevron between three bezants [roundels] a laurel leaf slipped
Buchinger, Matthew, 1674-1739.
Scotland Edinburgh.