[Sheng Lujia shi zhuan fu yin shu]
Contributors: Roulstone, John, 1777 or 1778-1826
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Macao
Language: chi
Translated from: und
Number of pages: 80
Work titles: Bible Luke Chinese 1812
Notes: Title romanized from hand-written Chinese characters on t.p.; characters in text are printed on rice paper.

Manuscript insert has title: The Gospel of St. Luke : translated at Macao in China in 1812 : from the translator Mr. Morrison to the Revd. Dr. Stoughton, Phil.

Binding by John Roulstone in dark red straight-grained morrocco, gold-tooled and with worked headbands. Covers bordered with wide roll of Greek key and feather with square inset corners of a different pattern. Large oval ornament in center of front and back covers bordered with pointellé tools. Cf. French, Hannah D. Bookbinding in early America. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia for the American Antiquarian Society, 1986. p. 96 (figure 33).