1825 Bible

[bergie]

Hope this isn't breaking protocol because I didn't find with my detector, but found this among somewhat hidden family items. It's 1825 Bible by Eyre and Strahan ("Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty") - Sotheby's wrote back and said it's just worth about $250 (200 pounds as they said), but still pretty cool, especially the handwritten entry 1830 from a woman perhaps named Elizabeth Homes Mereworth. Very nice (?)leather(?) cover. My brother told me sometimes they would make book covers from human skin. Anyone heard this?

 

[pganjon]

That is Awesome! Paul

 

[earl&patricia]

I bet it would be much more to a collector. JMO

 

[Twin Picks]

is it a Bible or A Necronomicon?

Cool find!!!

 

[JSM1986]

That's an awesome find!

 

[Mkriegs]

Unlikely that yours is human skin, but very cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy

 

[treblehunter]

Very cool find, interesting about the skin.

 

[UnderMiner]

Pretty sure the only bibles made with human skin in the past 200 years are the satanic kind.
Neat find though, Abraham Lincoln would have been 16 years old when that bible was new.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Don't believe everything your brother tells you. It was common to bind books in sheepskin and various grades of more expensive leathers. It needs to be taken care of to preserve it.

Bibles generally are not valuable unless they have an error (the famous missing "not" from the admonition about adultery, for example) or if it has an important historical association.

There are a great many Bibles out there and for obvious reasons people tend to hold onto them.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo, CM