The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha: /
| Uniform Title: | Bible. |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | eBook |
| 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. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 23185. |
| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| 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. 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. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm. (quarto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Worcester. United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |