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Jan 25, 2012 5:49am
yama-bato: Fore-edge with miniature set in clasp of The Book of Common Prayer Nineteenth-century English binding of brown goatskin, edged in brass, and with gilt text edges. An inscription inside the book reads: ‘Carrie Wilkie the gift of her dear Mother on completing her 18th year.’ The woman pictured in the miniature, is possibly Carrie Wilkie’s mother. Bound in Oxford or London by Hayday. Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1940 by Elizabeth Laing. The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, sold by E. Gardner and Son, 1853). REng BIBLE 1853.

yama-bato:

Fore-edge with miniature set in clasp of The Book of Common Prayer



Nineteenth-century English binding of brown goatskin, edged in brass, and with gilt text edges. An inscription inside the book reads: ‘Carrie Wilkie the gift of her dear Mother on completing her 18th year.’ The woman pictured in the miniature, is possibly Carrie Wilkie’s mother. Bound in Oxford or London by Hayday.

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1940 by Elizabeth Laing.

The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, sold by E. Gardner and Son, 1853). REng BIBLE 1853.
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