The Holy Bible
Subtitle: containing the Old and New Testaments
By: 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.
Contributors: Stevenson and Company
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 1847
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1847.
Notes: "The text alone printed by authority."--T.p.

"In terms of Her Majesty's Letters Patent to Her Printers for Scotland, and of the Instructions issued by Her Majesty in Council, dated the Eleventh July and twenty-eighth December Eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, I hereby License and Authorise Thomas Nelson, Bookseller in Edinburgh, to Print within the premises situated Eleven Thistle Street, Edinburgh, at present occupied by Thomas Constable, and to Publish, as by the Authority of Her Majesty, but so far as regards the Text only, an Edition of the Holy Bible ... "--License, t.p. verso,  signed "Dun. McNeill".

New Testament is with separate t.p. dated 1846: "The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's Special Command.  Appointed to be read in churches.".

MASS copy: Bound in dark brown papier mâché boards and spine.  Outer and inner board edges blocked in gold.  With gauffered edges.  With marbled endpapers.  With brass clasp across fore-edge.