The Psalms of David in metre..
Hope, Charles,1st Earl of Hopetoun,1681-1742,former owner.StEdNLdg.m.46(2)
Thomson, Sarah,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.150(2)
Cross, Robert,-1739.StEdNL: Bdg.m.150(2)
[Edinburgh? : Printed by John Baskett,
1726?]
Possibly issued with the quarto edition of the Bible printed in Edinburgh by John Baskett in 1726.
Version approved by the Kirk of Scotland.
Caption title.
ESTC
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.
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
Scotland Edinburgh.