BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ According to the Present Authorized English Version. London: De La Rue, Cornish and Rock, [1831.] Large 4to (291 x 200mm.) Text printed throughout in gold, double-column on white enamelled paper. (Title nearly detached and soiling verso, occasional dust-soiling to margins.) Original burgundy full morocco with wide Greek-key border in blind around a central vignette of the Ascension in blind to both covers, spine in blind with an altar and Sacrament before a church window and the agony in the Garden above, green silk doublures, elaborate gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, especially at top of spine, front-free endpaper browned). Note: rare. Thomas De La Rue set up business in London in 1821 as a printer and stationer. In 1830, along with Samuel Cornish and William Rock he received a Royal Letters Patent for the printing of playing cards and the publication of this bible, and the presenting of it to King William IV, likely secured the patent. The De La Rue company progressed to printing postage stamps, and then bank notes. The company is still trading and describes itself as 'the world's largest commercial security printer and paper maker'. Provenance: J.H. Hoiser (gift inscribed to on paper name-plate mounted to front-free endpaper).