THE HOLY BIBLE Containing the Old and New Testaments

The Book of Common Prayer together with The Psalter or Psalms of David

Oxford Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co

1829-30

Published in Oxford in 1829-1830, this is a very nice uniformly bound pocket sized set of The Holy Bible and Book of Common Prayer bound in full leather bindings fitted with brass closure clasps, page edges gilded all-round. The books measure 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches approx..

Both books bear bookplates of their original owner, an Emilia Mary Bowater.

This most likely is Emilia Mary Barne (who became Emilia Mary, Lady Bowater), a 19th-century English noblewoman with close ties to the royal court.

Born Emilia Mary Barne, she was the daughter of Colonel Michael Barne of Sotterley, Suffolk. she married General Sir Edward Bowater (1787–1861), a distinguished military officer and veteran of the Peninsular War and Waterloo

Her husband, Sir Edward, was a prominent figure at court, serving as Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and later as a special envoy for royal missions. Emilia herself moved in high-society circles as "Lady Bowater."

Her daughter, Louisa Mary Bowater (later Lady Knightley), was a well-known royal courtier and an extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Albany.

CONDITION

The books have some surface scuffs, minor corner bumps else bindings are in nice condition. internally some signs of cracking to inner joints to the bible but joints still holding well, some browning and offsetting to the bookplates. Light foxing to endpapers else contents in nice general condition. 

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