Reprint of 1693 edition. Each page has single red line borders. Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, London & Aylesbury. British Library says 1889 but Adomeit argues for 1888 as a date. The last English thumb-bible that was reprinted twice in the USA but never republished due in great part to the rise of Photo-mechanical reduction and the growth of David Bryce miniature publications. A similar copy was sold in 1998 for £150 in Garbett's catalogue 16, item 99. All edges red. Decorated endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription on verso of front free endpaper, dated December 1905. Provenance: Edward Crozier Creasy (1888–1936) a Major in WW1, Commander and Senior Liaison Officer of the Inter Allied Detachment during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite. Creasy was given this book at two or three years old, fiftten years before he began his military career in the Royal Garrison Artillery. 50 x 55 mm. Publisher's dark brown, embossed, panelled, miterd straight-grain morocco. Slight lean in binding. Corners, hinges and spine ends lightly rubbed; corners a bit worn. Adomeit, B87 (locates copies in five libraries). Johnston, xvi. Welsh, 1224. WorldCat locates no copies worldwide of this edition.