BOOK OF PSALMS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL HEBREW by (Crimean War - Florence Nightingale Association)

London 1854 Eyre and Spottiswoode. Large Print edition. Hardcover. Original black leather boards with gilt lettering rebound with later paper backstrip. about 200p. All edges gilt. Written in ink on front blank end paper: "Scutari Barrack Hospital. To ward in Corridor. This book to be lent to those weak in sight". Scutari Barrack Hospital was where Florence Nightingale served during the Crimean War. Near Good, front inner hinge cracked; boards worn. Emotional object when one imagines the ailing soldiers reading and getting comfort from this book. .