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19TH-CEN. TORTOISE-SHELL WITH RELIEF PANEL & GOLD-FILIGREE FASTENINGS
1930/31 PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM QUEEN MARY OF ENGLAND
[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT & PSALMBOOK - TORTOISE-SHELL BINDING - FASTENINGS - GOLD]. Het Nieuwe Testament, ... volgens het besluit ... 1618 en 1619 ...
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, the hiers of the widow of F.G. Onder de Linden, N. de Gijselaar Pz., P. Proost; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons (Nederlandsche Bijbel-Companie), 1836.
WITH: Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen, ... uit drie berijmingen, in het jaar 1773, gekozen, ...
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, the hiers of the widow of F.G. Onder de Linden, N. de Gijselaar Pz., P. Proost; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons (Nederlandsche Bijbel-Companie), 1836.
WITH: Evangelische Gezangen, om nevens het Boek der Psalmen bij den openbaren godsdienst in de Nederlandsche Hervormde Gemeenten gebruikt te worden; ... bijeen verzameld ... 1803, 1804 en 1805.
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, J. Schutte Hoyman; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons; Groningen, R.J. Schierbeek & the widow of M. van Heyningen Bosch (colophon: printed by Enschedé), 1840
WITH: [drop-title:] Catechismus, ...
[Amsterdam], [J. Brandt & son, etc.]; [Haarlem], [Johannes Enschedé & sons], [1836?]. 12mo. 4 parts in 1 volume (binding 14 x 10 x 4.5 cm). With diamond-head music notes. Nineteenth-century tortoise-shell, each board with a relief architectural panel in a neo-gothic style, spine with decorations engraved in the tortoise-shell, gilt silver and gold-filigree fittings (2 clasps with catchplates and 4 corner-pieces), silver hinges, gilt edges (with a gauffered decoration near the blue and white headbands), green coated and textured endpapers, 2 brown silk ribbon markers. With a presentation inscription from Queen Mary of England (1867-1953), wife of King George V (1865-1936), dated 1930, written on a Buckingham Palace letterhead and pasted to the endpapers.
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A Dutch New Testament (States Translation), metrical psalmbook (1773 version), hymnal and catechism in one volume, bound in tortoise-shell, each board with the same relief panel (10.5 x 6 cm) showing a triple gothic arch in an elaborately decorated gothic architectural frame. The decorative panel may have been hot-stamped, and on the front board one can see faint traces of the image of a similar but not identical panel, about eight millimeters lower. A pencilled note on one endpaper says the binding was made in France. F. Hervé, How to Enjoy Paris, Paris & London, 1842, chapter 8, notes among the "novel introductions of different branches of industry" and "recent inventions" that the firm of Vincent makes a wide variety of items in, among other things, stamped tortoise-shell.
The inscription on a Buckingham Palace letterhead says "With best wishes from Mary R[egina] 1930" in blue ink, with a "1" written in black ink over the "0." The signature agrees reasonably well with a sample from her youth. In very good condition, with the running head or direction line shaved on an occasional page. The binding has one small crack at the head of the spine, but is otherwise fine. A remarkable neo-gothic tortoise-shell binding with gold filigree fittings, with a gift inscription from Queen Mary of England.
