Antique 1894 Pearl Reference Bible William Collins Scotland Leather Pocket God

* **Year Printed:** 1894 (Official Licence dated May 26, 1894) * **Publisher:** William Collins, Sons, & Co. Ltd. (For the National Bible Society of Scotland) * **Binding:** Leather / Textured Calfskin Leather * **Format:** Pocket / Compact Pearl 24mo Ref. * **Special Attributes:** Antique Royal License Text, Gilt (Gold-under-Red) Edges, Original Color Biblical Maps revised by Major C.R. Conder, Includes Metrical Hymns, Translations, and Paraphrases in Verse. * **Provenance:** Features a neat, period ink ownership inscription on the flyleaf: Alex. Michie. **DESCRIPTION:** Up for sale is a beautiful, highly collectable late-Victorian pocket edition of The Pearl Reference Bible. This volume was printed in Glasgow by the renowned William Collins, Sons, & Co. Ltd. explicitly for the National Bible Society of Scotland. A unique legal license page at the front features Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Letters Patent authorizing the print run of twenty-five thousand copies, officially dated and signed in London on May 26, 1894, by J. B. Balfour. * **The Pearl Type:** Named for its exceptionally crisp, tiny 5-point font which allowed a complete Reference Bible with 60,000 parallel readings to fit into a pocket-sized footprint. * **Historical Maps:** Features striking, detailed maps at the rear, including The Ancient World Showing the Probable Settlements of the Descendants of Noah, explicitly credited as revised by the famous Victorian explorer Major C.R. Conder.