The Holy Bible [microform] : containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha: / translated out of the original tongues, with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England. ; With marginal notes and references. ; To which are added, an index, and an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations.
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| Other title: | Bible. English. Authorized. 1791. |
| Format: | Microfilm Book |
| Language: | English |
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United States of America. Printed at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts :
By Isaiah Thomas. sold by him in Worcester; and by him and Company, at Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street, Boston,
MDCCXCI. [1791]
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| Series: | Early American imprints.
no. 23185. |
| Item Description: | The Old (pages 7-1014) and New (pages 1017-1276) Testaments have separate title pages. Some copies bound in two volumes. Issued in three styles: with 2 copperplates; with 2 copperplates and concordance; and with 48 copperplates and concordance "in elegant binding." Cf. isaiah Thomas's catalogue of English, Scotch, Irish, and American books ... 1801. The present issue has 48 plates and the concordance (89, [3] pages) Fifty plates were prepared for the folio edition published by Thomas in the same year. As the frontispieces (plates I and XXXIII) were too large for the quarto edition, they were omitted. Plates engraved by J. Norman, J.H. Seymour, S. Hill, and A. Doolittle. Signatures: A⁴ A-5U⁴ 5W⁴ 5X-8A⁴ (8A4 blank); [A]² B-Z² (Z1 verso, Z2 blank). Gatherings of the second and subsequent alphabets of main sequence are numbered sequentially: 25A, 26B ... 164A. Printed in two columns. "Family record of marriage, and births of children."--page [1015]. "Family record of deaths."--page [1016] "A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments ... By John Brown ..."--89, [3] pages, with separate title page. |
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| Physical Description: | 1,310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm (4to) |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Worcester. United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |
| Citation/References Note: | Evans Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer., |
| Action Note: | committed to retain |