The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha: /
| Uniform Title: | Bible. |
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| 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 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 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 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."--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, 2 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. |