The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: by SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING - 1758 Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.

Edinburgh: by Alexander Kincaid, 1758. Scottish herringbone binding A pleasing and fairly typical example of the distinctively Scottish herringbone binding style.
The style was established by 1725 and was in decline by the late 1770s. The herringbone consists of a vertical stem placed in the centre of the cover with "ribs" of paired tools placed symmetrically on either side. A variety of tools were used to adorn the space between the centre and the borders.
It was customary to bind Bibles in two volumes, as here, with the metrical psalms being added to the second volume. As the psalms were used in the church services, this volume is normally found in a poorer condition than the first volume.
It was usual for the endleaves of these books to be of "Dutch gilt" paper. These highly patterned and coloured papers came principally from France, Germany and Italy and were so-called because they were imported through the Low Countries. Bound in 2 volumes, duodecimo (135 x 72 mm). Contemporary Scottish binding of brown goatskin, covers tooled in gilt with a herringbone pattern panel within a frame with flower-head tools at corners, enclosed by a border with fleurons, flowers, and dots; gilt panel spines, unlettered, with dotted-rule saltires, flower-heads and fleurons; "Dutch gilt" endpapers, gilt edges. Inscriptions dated January 1858 and hand-coloured Edinburgh-engraved bookplates on each free endpaper of John F. Patrick. The leather on vol. 2 darker from use, a few gatherings at the end of that volume (the Psalter) sprung, the title page of the Psalter with some loss at centre not affecting text, overall very good. Darlow & Moule 1124.