History of the Bassandyne Bible, the first printed in Scotland; with notices of the early printers of Edinburgh
William T. Dobson's 1887 bibliographic history of the Bassandyne Bible and Edinburgh's first printers, issued by Blackwood for antiquarians and book collectors. Illustrations are facsimile woodcuts from sixteenth-century Scottish Bibles — the Ark, the crossing of the Red Sea with lettered captions — plus a hand-press printing shop and the royal arms of James VI with unicorn supporters and banderoles.
