J. H. M.
Bath.
Minor Queries Answered.
The Great Bowyer Bible.
—Can you afford me information respecting the Great Bowyer Bible, which, I believe, about twenty years ago was valued at 1000l., and disposed of by lottery?
Is it in private hands, or in a public library?
J. S.
[The Bowyer Bible was disposed of, in 1848, in Mrs. Parkes's Club Subscription.
The name of the gentleman who was so fortunate as to obtain it, for his subscription of one guinea, is Saxon; a gentleman farmer, residing near Shepton Mallett in Somersetshire. He received the Bible in an appropriate cabinet from Mrs. Parkes, who knows nothing further of its subsequent history.]