The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: : 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..
Scott, James,-approximately 1786,binder.StEdNL: Bdg.s.56, Bdg.s.717(1-2), Bdg.s.737? & Bdg.s.44?
Ruston, Nancy,active 1783,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.717(1-2)
Edinburgh: : Printed by Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty's Printer.,
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]..
N.T. and The Psalms have separate titlepages.
The Apocrypha is in the list of books but is separately signed.
The N.T. has a separate titlepage.
Herbert 1267 does not include the Psalms.
Signatures Tt-Xx12 contain 'The Psalms of David in metre. ... Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland'.
The first page of each gathering bears as press figure; a dagger with two cross-strokes.
Herbert, A.S.  Engl. Bible,
ESTC
MS inscription on front free endpaper: Nancy Ruston 1783.
In a red goatskin binding, with a gold-tooled deep floral border. The spine is gold-tooled with five compartments, each containing a dark green leather label, four with the design of an urn, one with the volume number 'I'. With marbled endpapers, leaves with gilt edges.
In gold tooled, green morocco binding by James Scott of Edinburgh (Loudon JS 55).
In gold tooled, green morocco binding by James Scott of Edinburgh (not recorded in Loudon).
In a red morocco binding described by Loudon as an imitation of James Scott of Edinburgh (Loudon Imitation 1).
Bound in red morocco, the stamp at the head of the back is a copy of the one used by James Scott of Edinburgh (Loudon JS An. 5), but other tools are not traced.