Historical information
The "New Testament Souvenir of Peace World Wide War 1914 - 1918" refers to small pocket-sized New Testaments printed and distributed by religious organizations near the end of or immediately after World War I. They were handed out to soldiers, returning servicemen, or civilians as spiritual keepsakes, similar to the active-service pocket Bibles carried in the trenches. Designed to fit easily into a pocket (roughly 70 x 100 mm up to 14.5 x 9 cm), they typically featured cloth, leatherette, or pictorial cardboard covers stamped with titles like "Souvenir of Peace WW 1914-1918".
Physical description
A miniature light tan cloth covered New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with a black circular laurel wreath, a book and dove stamped on the front cover. Outside the wreath stamped in black lettering - Souvenir of Peace World Wide War 1914 - 1918. The back cover has a symbol of the letters of the British and Foreign Bible Society in black print. Pp. 464. Inside the front cover is a sticker of Presentation. On the opposite page is the name of the owner and date. Pp. 464.
Inscriptions & markings
On the left front end paper is a sticker - 'Presented by Kew Baptist Sunday School as a memento of the Signing of Peace June 28, 1919, in connection with the Great War, 1914-1918 E.S Ratten, Supt. J.B Herbert. Sec. July 20, 1919'. G.A Green. Print. On the top of the opposite page handwritten in black ink: 'Norman Walter Cook 20. 7. 1919.'
