The Holy Bible : 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seymour, Joseph H., engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23185.

Standardized Title:

Bible. English. Authorized. 1791

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

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, numbers 45, Newbury Street, Boston., MDCCXCI. [1791]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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 two 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 2 plates and is without concordance.

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 and plates XXIX and XLVIII used instead. Plate XXIX unsigned; plate XLVIII signed: J. Seymour.

Printed in two columns.

"Family record of marriage, and births of children."--p. [1015]. "Family record of deaths."--p. [1016].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 23185).

Cited in:

Evans 23185

Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer., 30

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