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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ActualProof, post: 3828975, member: 19340&quot;]Ok, my newest addition to the “Ol’ Book Fam” is this pretty little pocket Bible, red leather-bound, with a publishing date of 1812 in Edinburgh, Scotland. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is some writing in the book that indicates that a woman (signed as “her affectionate aunt”) gave this book to her niece, “Miss L. M. Bertino” on Jan 4th, 1840, in Kingsbridge (U.K.?). That was already a bit of travel!&nbsp; Then, there is a very lovely, if a bit morbid, poem written with different handwriting - with no signature other than “New York”, followed by an illegible date.&nbsp; On the blank page before the title page, if you look at the top left corner, you can see, in faded pencil, “To Caroline”. Later, someone added a name tag to the front of the book that says “WM FOSTER JR.”.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears this Bible immigrated to America at some point after it was gifted in 1840, and ended up in the hands of the Foster family, a couple of estate sales, then to a nice fellow named Dale, and then to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is anyone able to add any info to the stories this book tells?&nbsp; Knowledge of any of the names or places?&nbsp; Anybody else have a copy like this?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]318050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318051[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318049[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318052[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318053[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My images were not oriented like this on my phone, sorry for the sideways display!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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