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Title: Annotated Bible.
Alternative Title: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh : Printed by Mark and Charles Kerr, His Majesty's printers, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
Creator: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Contributor: Cottenham, Mark Pepys, Earl of, 1903-1943, former owner.
Pepys, William Weller, Sir, 1740-1825, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: between 1789-1821
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations by Hannah More in her Bible, which she presented to William Weller Pepys in 1821, at which point he may have contributed some additional annotations. Annotations consist of copious textual notes and markings in the margins of the text, particularly in the Book of Job. There is also a smaller sheet of paper tipped in at leaf C3, headed "Chapters retained in Watt's Bible."
Condition: Bound in contemporary diapered calf, floral rule in gilt on both boards, stamped in gilt on spine. Front board nearly detached.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--19th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)--England--20th century.
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)--England--19th century.
Extent: 2 volumes in 1 ([984]+ pages), bound; xx cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1c01h
f BS185 .1789 E23 *
Language: English
Subject: Bible.--English.--1789.
Place: England--Somerset--Wrington.
Provenance: Bookplate of Mark Eberard Pepys, Sixth Earl of Cottenham on front paste-down endpaper. Presentation inscription by Hannah More on leaf preceding title page: "To Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart., one of the oldest, most valued, and respected among my Friends, This Old Bible so long my Closet Companion, is presented affectionately as the pledge of a Friendship, which she hopes will be perpetuated in a better world, by his attached Friend, Hannah More, Barley Wood, March 30 1821."
Location: CLUW

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