Watson family bible, [ca. 1868?], with illustrations and genealogical notes, 1880-1976

MLMSS 9989/Box 1X

fonds

[Glasgow & London?]: William Collins, Sons & Co., [ca. 1868?]

Textual Records, Prints, Graphic Materials

413350

0.48 metres of textual material (1 volume in outsize box) - 35 x 25 cm - printed with manuscript annotations

John Colin Watson was a steamship proprietor of Balmain, N.S.W.

Owned by John Colin Watson

The Practical and Devotional Family Bible / The Holy Bible / containing the Old and New Testaments / according to the authorised version / with the marginal readings, and original and selected parallel references printed at length / and the / commentaries of Henry and Scott / condensed by the / Rev. John McFarlane, LL.D., London / and a compact biblical dictionary, by the Rev. John Eadie, D.D., LL.D., / with a scripture atlas, and a / series of illustrations of the lands of the bible / engraved from photographs taken expressly for this work / Glasgow and London: William Collins, Sons & Company.
Includes manuscript notes with register of family births, deaths and marriages.

Out of copyright: Published before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Brown leather decorative morocco binding with brass clasp. Five raised bands to spine. One decorative brass clasp. Colour lithograph to frontispiece and a series chromolithographic plates.
Watson family trees are located at ML DOC 1634.

Handwritten on endpages inside front cover 'John Watson Esq. Smith St Balmain Sydney 1880. Una Brehaut (nee Watson) 1976. Daughter and Granddaughter of John Watson 1910'.

No date. Date based on renaming of company in 1868 and by comparison with similar bibles by William Collins Sons & Co.