Song of Songs
This small book contains extracts from the Song of Songs in the King James version of the Bible.
(Last updated on 17/4/2021)
SBX-SON1: First edition
Title: The Song of Songs
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1986/87?
ISBN: None
Size: 128 x 95 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: Two
Binding: light green matt printed card covers
Paper: orange
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: none stated
Internal illustrations: illustrations probably by Carr on all pages
Number in series: This is no 90 in a series of small books
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none given
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: not stated
Printed by: not stated
Content: I am black, but comely,...;Rise up, my love,...; While the king sitteth...; How beautiful are thy feet in sandals...; As the apple tree...; I said, I will climb up into the palm tree...; My beloved is mine...; My beloved is gone down...; Thou hast ravished my heart...; I have put off my coat...; I went down into the garden of nuts...; Who is this that cometh...; Thou art beautiful...; Thy two breasts are like two fauns...; I opened to my beloved...; Thou art beautiful...; There are threescore queens...; My beloved is white and ruddy...; Set me as a seal upon thine heart...
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover
Notes: This is the only know edition.
Another edition?
The image below, seen on the internet, shows a display of the covers of small books. The book on the right in the middle is The Song of Songs but shows the image drawn by Carr inside the front cover. Perhaps there is an alternative edition with this image as the cover?
J.L.Carr and a section of a display of his small books in the late 1980s