Scottish ownership.- Bible, English.- [The Bible, that is, the holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and new Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke], 3 parts in 1, NT with engraved pictorial title, woodcut maps and illustrations within text, OT lacking title, all before f.8, and f.9, also lacking all after the second table to the NT, a few short tears, spotting and staining, lightly browned, 20th century cloth, backstrip and covers detached, [STC 2180 & 2499.7], small 4to, London [?but Holland], Christopher Barker, 1599 [?but after 1617]. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Provenance: Smith family with links to Ayr, Kilmarnock and Monkton (18th & 19th century ink genealogical notes).

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