Leabhuir an Tsean Tiomna, bound together with An Tiomna Nuadh [Bible in Irish] by Beddell, William, and Daniel, William, translators - 1827

This is the first complete Bible published in the Irish language by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Photos and scans of various copies of this Bible accessible on the internet show two binding variants for this printing. The first is an inexpensive full leather binding with minimal decoration, presumably the binding that the BFBS originally issued in 1827. The second is the clearly later pressed cloth binding with gilt spine lettering as in this copy. The fact that several copies with this binding can be found in a brief search of the internet suggests that someone, presumably the BFBS, bound a later issue from original sheets. The soiling of the first and last leaves of several signatures support this conjecture. However, I can find no reference to a later issue in various works on the BFBS.

Darlow and Moule, 5555, "an edition of 5,000 copies," with no description of binding. Old Testament translated by William Bedell (1571–1642), Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore; New Testament trans-lated by Uilliam O'Domhnuill (William Daniel, d. 1628), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam.