1826 Antique King James Bible Leather Binding Gilbert Family Provenance
$ 150.48
Description
1826 Antique King James Bible Leather Binding Gilbert Family Provenance. This compact Georgian-era Bible retains remarkable shelf presence, with beautifully aged leather, softly toned pages, period typography, and authentic evidence of generations of family use. The binding displays wonderfully in person, with warm craquelure across the spine and decorative stamped panels still visible on both covers. Atmospheric early 19th-century King James Bible in original blind-stamped leather with touching multi-generational Gilbert family provenance and handwritten memorial history. ✦ Early 19th Century King James Bible in Original Leather Binding ✦ ***Acquired alongside another Gilbert family Bible retaining related multi-generational provenance, suggesting both volumes descended through the same family archive... An atmospheric 1826 King James Bible in its original blind-stamped leather binding with touching multi-generational Gilbert family provenance and handwritten memorial history. This compact Georgian-era Bible retains remarkable shelf presence, with beautifully aged leather, softly toned pages, period typography, and authentic evidence of generations of family use. The binding displays wonderfully in person, with warm craquelure across the spine and decorative stamped panels still visible on both covers. Of particular interest is the surviving family provenance and memorial writing associated with the Gilbert family, including later handwritten genealogical notes identifying earlier ownership and referencing a burial in the Atlantic Ocean. These layered inscriptions transform the volume from a simple devotional text into a tangible multi-generational family artifact. The interior remains highly atmospheric, with dark readable type, extensive surviving text, and beautifully aged paper throughout. A compelling object for collectors of early Americana, Georgian devotional works, decorative antiquarian books, historical interiors, or intellectually curated shelf décor. An exceptionally soulful and visually striking survivor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Details ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Antique King James Bible • Early 19th century (circa 1820s–1830s) • English language • Original blind-stamped leather binding • Raised spine bands • Compact/personal devotional format • Gilbert family provenance inscriptions and memorial notes • Includes later handwritten genealogical insert • Double-column typography throughout • Old and New Testaments present • Warm natural toning and devotional wear throughout ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Condition Notes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please review all photographs carefully and zoom in for details, as they form an important part of the description. Appears substantially complete to the Conclusion of Revelation, though lacking at least one preliminary/title leaf at the Front. Authentic antique condition with significant age-related wear consistent with a genuinely used early 19th-century devotional Bible. Leather binding shows craquelure, rubbing, edge wear, dryness, scuffing, and areas of loss. Corners softened. Interior pages display toning, foxing, creasing, stains, folded corners, and scattered edge wear. Handwritten inscriptions and later genealogical notes present. Binding remains visually attractive and structurally respectable for age, though naturally delicate in areas. A beautifully worn and atmospheric survivor with strong decorative and historical presence. Please note: antique books may appear larger or smaller in photographs than in person. Measurements and photos are provided to help convey scale and condition as accurately as possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOHM Provenance & Atmosphere ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Selected for its tactile age, devotional history, and deeply atmospheric presence, this piece embodies the layered warmth and intellectual character central to the HOHM aesthetic — objects that carry visible human history and quiet emotional resonance across generations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Shipping & Policies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All reasonable offers are warmly welcome—please don’t hesitate to send one! I pack each item carefully and reuse quality boxes and materials whenever possible. Shipping is fully insured and handled promptly. All sales are final. Please email with any questions prior to purchase—I’m happy to provide additional photos or details. (antique bible georgian leather king james bible early 19th century devotional book americana genealogy family bible gilbert family provenance blind stamped leather antique religious book english bible primitive decor dark academia colonial style shelf decor old leather book)
