Item #23379 CROMWELL'S SOLDIER'S BIBLE: Being a Reprint in Facsimile, of "The Souldier's Pocket Bible," Compiled by Edmund Calamy, and Issued for the Use of the Commonwealth Army in 1643. With a Bibliographical Introduction. Edmund Calamy., Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. Viscount Wolseley.
CROMWELL'S SOLDIER'S BIBLE: Being a Reprint in Facsimile, of "The Souldier's Pocket Bible," Compiled by Edmund Calamy, and Issued for the Use of the Commonwealth Army in 1643. With a Bibliographical Introduction.
CROMWELL'S SOLDIER'S BIBLE: Being a Reprint in Facsimile, of "The Souldier's Pocket Bible," Compiled by Edmund Calamy, and Issued for the Use of the Commonwealth Army in 1643. With a Bibliographical Introduction.

CROMWELL'S SOLDIER'S BIBLE: Being a Reprint in Facsimile, of "The Souldier's Pocket Bible," Compiled by Edmund Calamy, and Issued for the Use of the Commonwealth Army in 1643. With a Bibliographical Introduction.

London: Elliot Stock, (1894). First edition thus. Paperback. Octavo textured brown wrappers printed in black, bound with tied black cord, 5 pp. introduction followed by 16 pp. facsimile. Short tears to edges of wrappers, spotting to endpapers, else near very good. Item #23379

A selection of Bible verses intended to guide and comfort Oliver Cromwell''s soldiers during the Englsih Civil War. The introduction to this edition asserts that only 2 copies of the original edition remain extant. This copy inscribed on front blank leaf: "B'r. General H. (?) Lovett, 9 Nov., 1918." A notable date, being the day the Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated and 2 days before Armistice was declared.

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