1919. 876 printed pages on India paper. Final page states 'Printed at the Glasgow University Press'. The 'License' page names 'Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 18 Clyde Street, Edinburgh' as publishers, 'the Holy Bible being a facsimile copy in miniature of the Oxford non-pareil decimo-sexto Bible printed by the Oxford Press - twenty thousand copies'. Title page says' printed in England'. Shakespeare family records in facsimile from the Parish Register Holy Trinity Church Stratford-upon-Avon, at start of New Testament. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. 37 x 50 mm. Rebound in full chestnut brown morocco, according to a pencil mark on the verso of the front free endpaper stating, 'bound by T.F. Ford', probably circa 1946; spine in compartments hand-tooled with gilt stars and dots, with five gilt ruled raised bands; the covers with central onlaid flower surrounded by gilt dots and a scrolling scalloped border and starred corner-pieces. Essentially this is a later printing from original plates of David Bryce & Son's Glasgow Holy Bible of 1896, Bryce having permanently closed about 2-5 years earlier. Thomas Francis Ford (1891-1971), Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects, and Ashpitel Prize winner for outstanding architectural achievement (1919), was a successful Soaneian Classic architect of commercial, cinema, educational, and ecclesiastical buildings. Ford's passion was for bookbinding and hand-finishing leather bound books with gilt tooling and onlays.