1851 HOLY BIBLE. Presented by the Governor of Alabama - Civil War - Plantation Owner. Jonathan Edwards complete textually with title and

complete textually with title and all text

All as usual here - health good

Bound in contemporary full calf with early American naïve folk over-spine with central stitching

and then relinquished as the Supper was received

half savage

1851 HOLY BIBLE. Presented by the Governor of Alabama - Civil War - Plantation Owner. Jonathan Edwards complete textually with title andA fascinating physical artifact that embodies the confusion we can feel as people in the 21st century looking back at the Church in the South during the era of slavery, the Confederacy, and the Civil War. And here it is, in all its contradictory awkwardness. A beautifully bound full morocco Bible in a rather fine binding with two inscriptions from R. M. Patton. On the fly leaf, in light pencil "Miss Ellen Martin. A token of remembrance from her friend