This volume, combining the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, is the one on which George III took his Oath at his Coronation in Westminster Abbey on 22 September 1761. Instead of producing a new edition, as for later coronations, copies of Thomas Baskett’s 1747 edition were bound in velvet.
According to a note inside the volume, George III gave it to Richard Osbaldson, Bishop of Carlisle, who had been among the bishops who laid it in front of the King at the service, and would serve as Bishop of London and Dean of the Chapel Royal subsequently. The Bible was preserved in the library of the Osbaldeston family seat of Hunmansby, in the County of York, until it moved into the possession of Lord Amherst of Hackney via the Osbaldeston-Mitford family. The flyleaves of the Bible contain several royal autographs from the book’s residence at Didlington Hall in Norfolk, home of Lord Amherst.  He was clearly much visited by the Royal Family when they spent time at Sandringham.  In 1996, the book was presented, with the discarded frames of the State Crown of George I, the Coronation Crown of George IV and the Coronation Crown of Queen Adelaide, to King Charles III when Prince of Wales by Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei, and transferred to the Royal Collection.  The frames are now on display in the Martin Tower at the Tower of London.