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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments. / Newly translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 17473
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17473.
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. English. Authorized. 1782.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1452 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (12mo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three doors above the coffee house, in Market Street., M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]
- Notes:
- The first complete English Bible printed in America and bearing an American imprint. Includes a resolution of Congress (p. [3-4]) "recommend[ing] this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States ..."
- The New Testament has separate title page, dated 1781. Of the New Testament, earlier editions were issued by Aitken in 1777, 1778, and 1779.
- Title vignette: arms of Pennsylvania.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17473).
- Cited in:
- Evans 17473
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4184
- Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer., 11
- OCLC:
- 55830809
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