The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha / translated out of the original tongues ; and with the former translations, diligently compared and revised.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Small, Abraham, 1764?-1829, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Bible. English. Authorized. 1798.

Language:

English

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

d.ke d.d- m:e, by2A (C) 1798 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for John Thompson & Abraham Small, from the hot-press of John Thompson, MDCCXCVIII [1798]

Notes:

"This is the first hot-press edition of the Bible printed in America. In the advertisement (April 30, 1796) it was proposed to deliver the whole in forty numbers, at one half-dollar each; one of which will be completed every two weeks.' The finished work was completed in two volumes in November 1798."--Hills.

"The words 'from the hot-press of John Thompson.' in the imprint are enclosed within square brackets."--ESTC.

Signatures: v. 1: [A]² B-7N² ; v. 2: chi² 10D-10E² 10F1, ²A-2L² chi1 3A-3T² 2chi1.

Leaf 9C signed C9; cf. Hills. A variant: leaf 9C signed correctly.

Without pagination.

The Apocrypha, with caption title, have separate signatures (²A-2L²) and are printed in italic type. The New Testament, followed by the index and tables, has separate signatures (²chi1 3A-3T² 2chi1) and special title leaf, which reads: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek: and with the former translations, Diligently Compared and Revised. Philadelphia, Printed for John Thompson & Abraham Small [From the hot-press of John Thompson.] M.DCC.XCVIII.

Volume 2 begins with Proverbs. Cf. Hills.

Title vignettes; engraved illustrated frontispiece.

"Subscribers' Names.": v. 2, leaf ²2chi1.

Local Notes:

RBC copy 2 imperfect: v. 2 only, of which leaf chi1 is wanting.

RBC copy 2 is variant in which leaf 9C is signed correctly.

RBC copy 2 has early ms. note in brown ink on leaf ²2Z2r; a few early ms. inscriptions in brown ink on back pastedown.

RBC copy 2 has index and tables (leaves ²3R-3T²) bound in after the Apocrypha (leaves ²A-2L²).

RBC copy 2 has bifolium on wove paper from an unidentified New Testament (Authorized version, John 11:37-13:19 and Acts 2:30-5:2), the first leaf signed E4 and the second unsigned, laid in.

RBC copy 2 bound in full leather over wooden boards.

RBC copy 2: spine wanting; boards detached and damaged; textblock partially disbound; occasional tears in margins of leaves.

Cited in:

ESTC W4507

Evans, C. American bibliography, 33408

Herbert, A.S. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961, 1425

Hills, M.T. English Bible in America (1962 edition), 62

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 5182

OCLC:

2161515