comprising: Bible de L'Enfance, de Pelafol Libraire, Paris, France, 1821, de l'Imprimerie d'A Egron, brown Moroccan leather, triple fillet, decorated spine, gilt edges, marbled boards, 2-3/4 x 2-1/4 in., diminutive children's Bible in French, illustrated with 40 engravings, signed to label on board "Bought in Paris, for my brother C.H.M. 1829. - L.M." Gifted from Louis Manigault (1828-1899) to his brother, Charles Heyward Manigault (1826-1856), Charles was three years old when he received the children's bible as a gift from his brother, who was only one year old, born on November 21, 1828, in Paris. Likely purchased, signed, and gifted by their parents, Charles Izard Manigault and Elizabeth Heyward Manigault; The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Holy Communion According to the Use of The Church of England, London: Oxford University Press, circa 1900, English silver plaque cover, marks for C. Widmer & Sons, London, 1906, .925 fine., applied central monogram "IHS", (Iesus Hominum Salvator), and later engraved "CT" and "EP", Moroccan red leather, gilt lettering to spine, aeg, 2-1/8 x 1-7/8 in.; together in an acrylic box, 3-1/4 x 3-1/4 in.
Provenance: Collection of Emma Manigault Gribbin, 6 Gibbes Street, Charleston, South Carolina; thus through family descent
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Collection of Emma Manigault Gribbin, 6 Gibbes Street, Charleston, South Carolina; thus through family descent
Bible lacking some engravings, leather binding distressed with losses, binding loose at spine with tape reinforcements, bumped and worn corners, toning, pages with losses at corners, folding; prayer book denting and discoloration to silver cover, foxing and toning to pages, some folded corners