3-021-064 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bible presented to the Princess of Wales by Sunday-school children, 1868. 'The Bible which was lately presented to her Royal Highness, in the name of a great number of Sunday school-children in England and Wales, who had subscribed their pence for that object, was bound, as shown in our Illustration, by Messrs. Cox and Son, manufacturers of church furniture and Gothic carvers, of Southampton-street, Strand, and Belvedere-road, Lambeth. The side boards of the volume are of carved cedar, with massive silver mountings, engraved with the rose, shamrock, and thistle, and with other emblems. On one side is an ivory carving, which shows the Crucifixion in the centre; while "Moses in the bullrushes," "Samuel and Eli," "Christ blessing little children," and "The Holy Family" are represented in the four corners. On the other side are the Royal arms, and those of Denmark. The ivory carvings were executed in France'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.