{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "AT\\no\\nc\\n^^0^\\nS\\n0^ oo ^O\\n^o^\\n-^^0^", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "-p\\n4 O\\n-t^o^\\nc\\nK^\\nH o.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00abaa\\nOS\\n\u00c2\u00aba\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00a9s\\n\u00c2\u00abo J\\n\u00c2\u00abs\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\ns\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00c2\u00abs\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\ns\\n0S\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n.OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\nS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\nOS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00c2\u00abs\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\ns\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00c2\u00ab0S\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\ns\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n;\u00c2\u00abos\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n;\u00c2\u00abos\\ni\u00c2\u00aboS\\ni\u00c2\u00ab0S\\ni\u00c2\u00abOS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OS\\nS^^^IS^Si^MSS^I Ml^i^MIIMMH^fil^\\n/S^t\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE:\\nCONTAINING THE\\nOLD TESTAMENT\\nAND THE N E W.\\nTranflated into the\\nINDIAN LANGUAGE-\\nAND\\nOrdered to be Printed by ths Commiffionerf of the Vnited Colama\\n-n I^EW ENGLANB,\\nAt thr Charge, and with tbcConfcotof the\\nCORPORATION IN ENGLAND\\nFor the Trop/tgatton of the Cjofpd amcngH tlx Indians\\nin New-En Jjnd.\\nA M B R I DG M:\\nPrinted by Samuel green and ^JHarmaekkf Mi foi%\\nMDCLXIir.\\nFac-simile of the English title page of the Eliot Bible of 1663. Reduced size.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Bar% (\u00c2\u00a7iMtB\\nof ^mmca\\nBY-\\nREV. JOHN WRIGHT, D.D.\\nRector of St. Paul s Churcli, St. PjiiI. Miiui.\\nOCT 1 1892\\nTHOMAS WHITTAKER, 2 and 3 BIBLE HOUSE\\n1892", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0009.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1892, by\\nTHOMAS WHITTAKER\\nZ7-77/\\nt-^t Conxion (precfi\\n171, 173 Macdougal Street, New York", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0010.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe title Early Bibles of America must\\nbe understood in a restricted sense. I have\\nwritten of Bibles that were printed during\\nthe existence of the British- American colonies,\\nand of others that appeared after the colonies\\nbecame the United States. I have not carried\\nthe subject into Canada, or other parts of North\\nAmerica. As the versions or editions were, in\\nmost cases, associated with certain translators\\nor publishers, the accounts are not only biblio-\\ngraphic, but to some extent biographic.\\nJ. W.\\nSt. Paul, Minn., Feb. 1, 1892.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nThe Eliot Bible 1\\nThe Sauk Bible 28\\nThe AiTKEN Bible 55\\nThe Fibst Douay Yeesios 69\\nThe Thomas Bible 74\\nThe Collins Bible 86\\nThe Fibst Tkanslation fkom the Septuagint 91\\nThe Fibst Tbanslation feom the Peshito\\nSybiac Vebsion 97\\nCuBious Veesions 103\\nEably Editions of the Gbeek Testament 112\\nVaeious Editions 119\\nAPPENDIX A.\\nDedication in the Eliot New Testament\\nOF 1661 143\\nAPPENDIX B.\\nDedication in the Eliot Bible op 1663 149\\nAPPENDIX C.\\nDedication to Hon. Kobeet Boyle in Eliot\\nBible of 1685 156", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "VI CONTENTS.\\nAPPENDIX D.\\nFAOB\\nList of Owners of Eliot New Testaments\\nAND Bibles as fab as known 158\\nAPPENDIX E.\\nSome of the Prices paid for Eliot New\\nTestaments and Bibles 162\\nAPPENDIX F.\\nList of Owners of the Saue Bibles as far\\nAS KNOWN 163\\nAPPENDIX G.\\nList of Owners of the Aitken Bible as\\nfab as known 165\\nINDEX 167", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "EARLY BIBLES.\\nTHE ELIOT BIBLE.\\nThe history of the first Bible printed in\\nAmerica is the history of the devotion and per-\\nsistence chiefly of one man. John Eliot was\\ndrawn to New England by the desire to relieve\\nthe minds of the Indian races from their spirit-\\nual darkness. He came when his mental fac-\\nulties were keen and active, and lived to see\\nthe happy consummation of his hopes and plans,\\neven to an honored old age. Eliot arrived in\\nNew England in the autumn of the year 1631.\\nAfter a short time devoted to teaching, he be-\\ncame the pastor of the Roxbury Church. From\\nthe first his interest in the Indians had mani-\\nfested itself, and he early took steps toward\\n1", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "2 EARLY BIBLES.\\ngiving them the Word of God. He was well\\nfitted for the work, both by heart and intellect.\\nHis scholastic advantages had been ample, for\\nhe had received his education at Jesus College,\\nCambridge, from which institution he was grad-\\nuated in 1623. He was well acquainted with\\nthe original languages of the Bible, and set\\nabout his work with confidence and enthusiasm.\\nHis first efforts at learning the language of the\\nIndian tribes of Massachusetts were made\\nthrough the assistance of an Indian who had\\nbeen taken a prisoner in the Pequot Wars, who\\nwas employed in the neighborhood as a house\\nservant. He was, says Eliot, the first that\\nI made use of to teach me words, and to be my\\ninterpreter. Eliot made such progress in his\\nknowledge of the language that in 1646 he was\\nable to preach to the Indians in their native\\ntongue. But, before he could place into the\\nhands of these converts books of instruction,\\nfinancial help was requisite.\\nIn 1643 the colonies of Massachusetts, Plym-\\nouth, Connecticut, and New Haven entered", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 3\\ninto articles of confederation to aid the Indians,\\nand each colony was represented by two com-\\nmissioners. This move received the approval\\nof the mother-country, for in July, 1649, the\\nCorporation for the Promoting and Propagating\\nof the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England\\nwas formed by act of Parliament and commis-\\nsioners of the united colonies were appointed\\nto receive and distribute the necessary funds\\nfor the education of the Indians. In 1653\\nEliot wrote I have had a great longing de-\\nsire, if it were the will of God, that our Indian\\nlanguage might be sanctified by the translation\\nof the Holy Scriptures into it. The Lord s\\nPrayer, the Ten Commandments, and a few\\npassages of the Bible, were first attempted. A\\nprimer, or catechism, appeared about 1654.\\nThe Book of Genesis and the Gospel of St. Mat-\\nthew were in print in 1655, and a few Psalms\\nin metre were added in 1658. The printing\\nof these early productions was executed by\\nSamuel Green at Cambridge. The first press\\nused in this place was set up in 1639, and was", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 EARLY BIBLES.\\nthe property of the president of Harvard Col-\\nlege, the Rev. Henry Dunster. It was worked\\nby Stephen Daye until 1649, when the manage-\\nment of it was turned over to Samuel Green.\\nA new press and new type were received in\\n1659, and in 1660 Green was joined by Marma-\\nduke Johnson, who had been sent from Eng-\\nland to aid him in his work. With these\\nincreased facilities Mr. Eliot became more and\\nmore anxious that the Indian tribes might have\\nthe Bible in their own tongue. He said: I\\nlook at it as a sacred and holy work, to be re-\\ngarded with much fear, care, and reverence.\\nUnder the stimulus of such exalted motives as\\nthese the translation went on day by day, until\\nunder date of Dec. 28, 1658, Mr. Eliot with\\nevident joy writes Bless the Lord, that the\\nwhole book of God is translated into their own\\nlanguage it wanteth but revising, transcribing,\\nand printing. Oh that the Lord would so\\nmove that by some means or other it might be\\nprinted His appeal was not in vain, for the\\nfunds were provided by the Corporation in", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 5\\nEno-land. The New Testament in the Indian\\nlanguage appeared in 1661. The edition was\\nabout fifteen hundred copies. There are two\\ntitle-pages, the first in English and the second\\nin Indian. The English title-page reads\\nTHE NEW\\nTESTAMENT\\nof our\\nLORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.\\nTranslated into the\\nINDIAN LANGUAGE,\\nand\\nOrdered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies\\nIN NEW ENGLAND,\\nAT THE CHAEGE, AND WITH THE CONSEKT OF THE\\nCORPORATION IN ENGLAND\\nFor the propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians\\nIN NEW ENGLAND.\\nCAMBRIDG\\nPRINTED BY SAMUEL GREEN AND MAEMADXJKE JOHNSON.\\nMDCLXL", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "6 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThe Indian title-page reads as follows\\nWUSKU\\nWUTTESTAMENTUM\\nNUL-LOEDUMUN\\nJESUS CHRIST\\nNUPPOQUOHWUSSUAENEUMUN.\\nCAMBRIDGE\\nPRINTED BY SAMUEL GKEEN AND MAKMADUKE JOHNSON.\\nMDCLXI.\\nThe translation of the Indian reads\\nNEW\\nHIS-TESTAMENT\\nOUR-LOKD\\nJESUS CHRIST\\nOUR-DELIVERER.\\nThe book in size is a small quarto of 130\\nprinted leaves without pagination. By exact\\nmeasurement the leaves are 7f inches by 5f\\ninches, while the printed pages are 6\u00c2\u00a7 inches by\\n4| inches. The text is in double columns with\\nmarginal references. The Indian language\\nfrom St. Matthew to Revelation covers 126", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 7\\npages. Between the two title-pages there is a\\ndedication in English to Charles the Second.^\\nThis is found only in a limited number of\\ncopies intended for presentation. There is a\\ndiamond-shaped figure of thirty-two printers\\nflowers on the Indian title-page, and this famil-\\niar ornamentation is common to nearly all the\\nEliot Testaments. Forty copies of the New\\nTestament with the English title-page and\\nkingly dedication were sent to Hon. Robert\\nBoyle, the governor of the Corporation in\\nEngland. The first twenty were sent in 1661,\\nand the remaining twenty in 1662. The first\\ncopy was presented to Charles the Second.\\nThe second was given to Lord High Chancellor\\nEdward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon the third, to\\nRev. Edward Reynolds, D.D., the Bishop of\\nNorwich the fourth, to the Rev. Joseph Caryl\\nthe fifth, to the Rev. Richard Baxter and the\\nsixth and seventh, to the Vice Chancellors of\\nthe universities of Oxford and Cambridge.\\nThe thirteen copies that remained, and the\\nsecond lot of twenty, were left to the disposal\\n1 Appendix A.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 EARLY BIBLES.\\nof Mr. William Ashurst and Mr. Richard\\nHutchinson, officers of the English Corporation.\\nCopies of the New Testament of 1661, solely\\nin Indian and without the English title-page,\\nwere bound up, but the exact number is not\\nknown. The Eliot New Testament of 1661 is\\nnow an exceedingly rare book, as only nine-\\nteen copies have been located. Two copies are\\nin the British Museum, and two in the Lenox\\nLibrary, New York. Trinity College (Dublin),\\nGlasgow University, Edinburgh University,\\nBodleian Library (Oxford), the British and\\nForeign Bible Society (London), Town Library,\\nLeicester, Eng., Harvard University, and the\\nBoston Athenaeum, each possesses a copy. The\\nremaining seven are in private libraries.\\nThe hopeful work accomplished among the\\nIndians encouraged Mr. Eliot in placing the\\nwhole Bible in their hands. The printing of\\nthe Old Testament began in September, 1660,\\nand by the same month in the following year\\nthe five books of Moses were completed. The\\ncommissioners in September, 1662, wrote to Mr.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 9\\nBoyle fiom Boston, saying, The Bible is now\\nabout half done and constant progress therein\\nis made the other half is like to be finished in\\na year.\\nIn 1663 the completed Bible appeared. It\\ncontains four title-pages. The first is in Eng-\\nlish and reads thus\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE:\\nCONTAINING THE\\nOLD TESTAMENT\\nAND THE NEW.\\nTranslated into the\\nINDIAN LANGUAGE,\\nand\\nOrdered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies\\nin NEW-ENGLAND,\\nAt the Charge, and with the Consent of the\\nCORPORATION IN ENGLAND\\nFor the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians\\nin New-England.\\nCAMBBIBGE\\nPrinted by Samuel Green and MarmaduJce Johnson.\\nMDCLXIII.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThe second title, which is in Indian, is as fol-\\nlows\\nMAMUSSE\\nWUNNEETUPANATAMWE\\nUP-BIBLUM GOD\\nNANEESWE\\nNUKKONE TESTAMENT\\nKAH WONK\\nWUSKU TESTAMENT.\\nNe quoshkinnumuk nashpe Wuttinneumoh CHRIST\\nnoh asoowesit\\nJOHN ELIOT.\\nCAMBRIDGE:\\nPrinteuoop nashpe Samuel Green kah Marmaduke Johnson.\\n1663.\\nLiterally translated, these words read\\nTHE WHOLE\\nHOLY HIS BIBLE GOD\\nboth\\nOLD TESTAMENT\\nand also\\nNEW TESTAMENT.\\nTHIS TUKNED BY THE SERVANT OF CHBI8T\\nWHO IS CALLED\\nJOHN ELIOT.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00abfe\u00e2\u0082\u00ac S\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbt\\nM A M V S S E U\\nWUNNEETUPANATAMWE ;|S}\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as\\nsInukkone testaments\\nUP-BIBLUM GOD |s\\nNANEESWE i\\nKAH WONK 112\\nWUSKU TESTAMENT, fe\\no\u00c2\u00bb\\nNe c^uofhkinnumuic nafhpe Wuttinncumob ^H RI$7 i U\\nDOb afooweiit j:fC\u00c2\u00bb\\nJOHN ELIOT- l|s\\nIIS.\\nI^ PrwteuQop nafhpe S*iOT\u00c2\u00abf/ Cr\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab kah Ai-rw\u00c2\u00abM* F*^ |S!\\nX tf 3\u00c2\u00ab jS^\\nFac-simile of the Indian title page of the Eliot Bible of 16G3. Reduced size.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 11\\nThe third and fourth title-pages are contained\\nin the New Testament; and, as they are the\\nsame as in the edition of 1661, the description\\nneed not be repeated. At the end of the Old\\nTestament are the words Wohkukquohsinwog\\nQuoshodtumwaenuog that is, The Prophets\\nare ended. The New Testament is followed\\nby a metrical version of the Psalms. There is\\nno title-page to the Psalms, but this head-\\ning Wame Ketoohomae Uketoohomaongash\\nDavid meaning, All the Singing Songs of\\nDavid. At the close, on one leaf, are rules\\nfor Christian living, consisting of two ques-\\ntions, How can I walk all day long with\\nGod and What should a Christian do to\\nkeep perfectly holy the Sabbath Day with\\nthe answers.\\nThe book is a quarto in size and printed\\nupon excellent paper. The pages measure 6|\\ninches by 4f inches. Genesis and the other\\nbooks to the end of the Old Testament cover\\n414 leaves and St. Matthew to the end of the\\nNew Testament, 126 leaves. The Psalms in", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12 EARLY BIBLES.\\nmetre fill 50 leaves, and the total number of\\nprinted pages in the Bible is 600. There is a\\ndedication 1 to Charles the Second covering two\\npages. This differs in wording from the first\\nthat appeared in the edition of 1661, as it is a\\ndedication of the whole Bible to His Majesty.\\nAs in the case of the New Testament, presenta-\\ntion copies of the Bible of 1663 were sent to the\\nEnglish Corporation, to be disposed of as that\\nbody should elect. The number thus sent was\\ntwenty, in an unbound condition. In England\\nthey were substantially bound in dark-blue\\nmorocco. What disposition was made of these\\ntwenty volumes, and who became their recipi-\\nents, is not known, except that one copy was\\npresented Charles the Second.\\nA portion of the edition of 1663 was bound\\nup for the use of the Indians, and contained no\\nEnglish title-pages and dedication, for it was\\nwholly in the Indian tongue. The copies pre-\\nviously spoken of as having the English title-\\npages and dedication are marked by certain\\nvariations. Mr. Wilberforce Eames, in his\\n1 Appendix B.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 13\\nBibliographic Notes on Eliot s Indian Bible\\nand his other Translations and Works in the\\nIndian Language of Massachusetts, printed at\\nWashington by the Government in 1890, makes\\na classification of seven varieties. He says\\nThese differ in the number of certain prelimi-\\nnary leaves namely, the dedication of the\\nwhole Bible, the Indian general title, the leaf\\nof contents, the English New Testament title,\\nand the dedication of the New Testament, one\\nor more of which are generally omitted; also\\nin the Indian New Testament title, which\\nsometimes does not contain the diamond-shaped\\nfigure. Those persons who desire to study\\nthese differences critically are referred to Mr.\\nEames s valuable work.\\nDr. E. B. O Callaghan, in his List of Bibles\\nprinted in America, points out sixty errors in\\nthe printing of the Eliot Bible of 1663, and\\nmost of these were caused by the omission of\\ncertain words and sentences from the trans-\\nlation. A ludicrous mistake was made in the\\nrendering of the twenty-third verse of the\\n1 Bibliographic Notes, p. 16.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14 EARLY BIBLES.\\nsecond chapter of the 2 Kings, Go up, thou\\nbald head, to which Dr. Trumbull has called\\nattention. He says In the Indian, the last\\nword literally is ball-head pompasuhkonkan-\\nontup Either the interpreter mistook the\\nword as pronounced by Eliot, or he thought it\\nwell to aggravate the insult by likening Elisha s\\nsmooth head to a foot-ball for pompasuhkonk\\ndenotes a ball to play with.\\nConsidering the difficulties that had to be\\nencountered in printing the first Bible in Amer-\\nica, it is a matter of surprise that the errors\\nwere not more numerous. Presses, type, ink,\\nand paper had to be imported, coming long\\ndistances, and by slow means of conveyance.\\nWorkmen were few, and the sources of instruc-\\ntion limited. The Algonkin was a harsh lan-\\nguage, and it had no equivalents for certain\\nEnglish words. Salt was unknown to the\\nIndians, and hence the word had to be inserted\\nwithout translation. The same was true of\\nAmen and some other terms. The words\\nof the language were so extremely long that\\n1 Memorial History of Boston, p. 473.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 15\\nCotton Mather thought they must have been\\nstretching themselves out from the time of the\\nconfusion of tongues at Babel. Rev. Dr. Ellis\\nplayfully says To us it seems as if an Indian\\nroot-word started little and compact, like one of\\ntheir own pappooses, and then grew at either\\nextremity, thickened in the middle, extended in\\nshape and proportion in each limb, member, and\\nfeature, and was completed with a feathered\\nhead-knot. Some impression of the appearance\\nof the language may be had by the following\\nversion of the Lord s Prayer\\nNooshun kesukqut, quttianatamunach koowesuonk. Pe-\\nyaumooutch kukketassootamoonk, kuttenantamoonk ne n\\nnach ohkeit neane kesukqut. Nummeetsuongash asekesu-\\nkokish assamainnean yeuyeu kesukok. Kah ahquoantam-\\naiinnean nuinmatcheseongash, neane matchenehukqweagig\\nnutahquontamounnonog. Ahque sagkompagunaiinnean en\\nqutchhuaouganit, webe pohquohwussinnean wutch matchi-\\ntut. Newutche kutahtaunn ketassootamoonk, kah menuh-\\nkesuonk, kah sohsumoonk micheme. Amen.\\nThe completion of the Bible of 1663 brought\\ngreat joy to the heart of Mr. Eliot, not only\\nbecause it was a great event in the art of print-\\n1 Memorial History of Boston, vol. i. p. 270.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "16 EARLY BIBLES.\\ning, but chiefly for the reason that it facilitated\\nhis work among the Indians. Cotton Mather\\ncould hardly contain himself in his enthusiasm\\nof thanksgiving. In his Magnalia he thus\\nwrites: Behold, ye Americans, the greatest\\nhonor that ever you were partakers of. The\\nBible was printed here at our Cambridge, and\\nis the only Bible that ever was printed in all\\nAmerica, from the very foundation of the\\nworld. The whole translation he writ with\\nbut one pen which pen, if it had not been lost,\\nwould have certainly deserved a richer case\\nthan was bestowed upon that pen with which\\nHolland writ his translation of Plutarch.\\nFrancis, in his Life of John Eliot, doubts the\\nstatement about the translation being written\\nwith but one pen, and says Mather s story\\nseems more precise than credible.\\nIn 1680 a second edition of the New Testa-\\nment appeared. The upper part of the title-\\npage is in Indian, while the lower contains the\\nwords, Cambridge, Printed for the Right Hon-\\n1 Francis. Life of Eliot, p. 227.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 17\\nourable Corporation in London for the propaga-\\ntion of the Gospel among the Indians in New\\nEngland. 1680. No mention is made of the\\nprinter or printers.\\nMr. Eliot was desirous of seeing a new im-\\npression of the whole Bible, as many copies of\\nthe edition of 1663 had been lost or destroyed\\nduring the score of years since it was printed.\\nThe Indian war of 1675-76 had contributed also\\nto this result. Mr. Eliot began the new version\\nin 1677, and desired the work to be accelerated,\\nfor he said, My age makes me importunate.\\nThat great spiritual good had been accomplished\\nis evident, for in the earliest years of his work\\nEliot wrote of the Indians It hath pleased\\nGod to stir up the hearts of many of them this\\nwinter to learn to read and write, wherein they\\ndo much profit with a very little help, especially\\nsome of them, for they are very ingenious. In\\n1680 Mr. Eliot wrote I shall depart joyfully,\\nmay I but have the Bible among them, for it is\\nthe word of life. This desire for a fresh sup-\\nply of Bibles was not alone Eliot s wish, for he", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "18 EARLY BIBLES.\\nsays under date of November 4, 1680 Our\\npraying Indians both in the islands and on the\\nmain, are considered together, numerous thou-\\nsands of souls, of whom some true believers, some\\nlearners, and some still infants, and all of them,\\nbeg, cry, entreat for Bibles, having already en-\\njoyed that blessing, but now are in great want.\\nThe press-work on the Old Testament began in\\n1682, but the progress was slow, for Mr. Eliot\\nwrites We have but few hands, one English-\\nman, a boy, and one Indian.\\nThe Indian referred to was a man known as\\nJames Printer, who had worked on the first\\nedition. He seems to have been well fitted for\\nhis task, for Eliot in 1682 writes of him:\\nWe have but one man, the Indian printer, that\\nis able to compose the sheets and correct the\\npress with understanding. Mr. Eliot also re-\\ncords his indebtedness to Rev. John Cotton of\\nPlymouth, who helped me much in the second\\nedition of the Bible.\\nIn the autumn of 1685 the second and last\\nversion of the Indian Bible appeared. Extant", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 19\\ncopies show that this is in leading particulars\\na reproduction of the first edition. This is im-\\nplied on the title-page, where the Indian sen-\\ntence occurs, Nahoht8eu ontchetQe Printeuoo-\\nmuk which, translated, means Second-time\\namended impression. The name only of Samuel\\nGreen appears as printer. Like the previous\\nBible, the contents consist of the Old and New\\nTestaments, the Psalms in metre, and the\\nrules for Christian living. It is similar to it\\nalso in being printed in double columns with\\nheadings and side references. The whole\\nbook is printed on 608 leaves without pagi-\\nnation; that is, a few more leaves than the\\nBible of 1663, which is accounted for by the\\naddition of summaries at the head of the chap-\\nters. It contains no English title-pages, as\\nthey are solely in Indian. A few of the copies\\nhad a dedication in English to Hon. Robert\\nBoyle, the head of the Corporation in Eng-\\nland. Mr. Boyle had been a most substan-\\ntial helper in advancing the welfare of the\\nIndians in New England. He had not only in-\\n1 Appendix C.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20 EARLY BIBLES.\\nfluenced the English Corporation to sustain the\\nwork financially, but had given out of his per-\\nsonal means \u00c2\u00a3300 toward it, and also provided\\nfor an additional gift of \u00c2\u00a3100 in his will. Mr.\\nEliot was profoundly grateful for the solid\\ninterest Mr. Boyle had taken in his plans, and in\\nhis letters addressed him as Right honourable\\nnursing father. Copies of the Bible of 1685\\nwith the Boyle dedication are now extremely\\nscarce, as only twelve are known to exist, and\\nnine of these are in public libraries.\\nThe errors in printing the Bible of 1663 were\\ncorrected in the second edition. While the lat-\\nter is not without errors, they are chiefly, as Dr.\\nO Callaghan has shown, mistakes in the spelling\\nof words. Dr. Trumbull has called attention to\\nthe omission of the sentence, but deceivethhis\\nown heart, in St. James 1 26. In the second\\nedition the error is corrected in a foot-note.\\nThe improved condition of the Bible of 1685\\nover the first edition makes the second edition\\na more desirable book to those who wish to\\nknow something of the Indian language.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 21\\nA recent writer very justly says While the\\nfirst edition of Eliot s Bible is the more attrac-\\ntive to collectors of rare Americana, and de-\\nserves the pre-eminence that is accorded to it,\\nas a monument of early typography, and as the\\nfirst version of the Bible printed in the New\\nWorld, it should not be forgotten that to the\\nstudent of the American languages, and to the\\ngeneral philologist, the second is the more valu-\\nable and that all critical references to Eliot s\\nversion are or should be made to this revised\\nand corrected edition.\\nTo collectors of rare books the Eliot Bibles\\nare coveted treasures. As the years roll away\\nthe price of these rarities steadily rises. At the\\nsale of the Brinley library in New York, March,\\n1879, an Eliot New Testament of 1661 brought\\n$700. At the same sale a Bible of 1663 was\\nknocked down at $1,000. At an auction in\\n1884 a Bible of 1685 brought $950. In Lon-\\ndon, at a sale held July 2, 1882, Mr. Quaritch,\\nthe eminent bibliophile, bought for the late Mr.\\n1 Appendix E.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22 EARLY BIBLES.\\nKalbfleisch of New York an Eliot Bible of\\n1663, containing the English title-pages, and\\ndedication to Charles the Second, for \u00c2\u00a3580 that\\nis, about $2,900. Eighteen years ago Mr. Na-\\nthaniel Paine of Worcester, Mass., made a list\\nof the Eliot Bibles. By his count the total\\nreached fifty-four. Since then several copies,\\nespecially those owned privately, have changed\\nhands, and others have come to light. The\\nwriter has found twelve copies that have not\\nbeen previously noticed or included in any list.\\nThere are more Eliot Bibles in the great libra-\\nries of Europe than was at first supposed. The\\ntotal number of Indian New Testaments and\\nBibles now known to exist is more than one\\nhundred.^\\nThere are many interesting associations con-\\nnected with copies of the Eliot Bibles, as they\\nhave been in the possession of kings, princes,\\nstatesmen, prelates, and great schools of learn-\\ning. There is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford,\\nan Eliot Bible of 1661, which was given by\\n1 Appendix D.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 23\\nRalph Freke in 1668. The year before he had\\nreceived it from Harvard College. It contains\\nthe following inscription\\nBy order of the overseers of Harvard CoUeg in Cam-\\nbridg in New Eng J, To the Right worshipp Ralph Freke,\\nEsq., a noble benefactor to the aforesayd Colleg. 1667.\\nMr. Freke was one of the subscribers who\\ngave Harvard College its first font of type.\\nIt may be that this Bible was printed from the\\ntype thus presented.\\nThe University of Virginia has a copy of the\\nfirst edition of the Eliot Bible that was once\\nthe property of Dr. C. D. Ebeling, the German\\nhistorian. At his death his library was pur-\\nchased by Mr. Israel Thorndike of Boston, who\\npresented it to Harvard University in 1818.\\nAs the University had another copy of Eliot,\\nthe corporation, at a meeting held June 22,\\n1819, directed the treasurer to dispose of the\\nEbeling Bible. By some train of circumstances\\nit came into the possession of the University of\\nVirginia, where it has been since 1828, as the\\nbook catalogue of the institution shows. It", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "24 EARLY BIBLES.\\ncontains Dr. Ebeling s autograph, and this in-\\nscription on the fly-leaf: Biblia Sacra in lin-\\nguam Indorum Americanse gentis Twv Natick\\ntranslata a Johanne Eliot Missionario Angli-\\ncano. Impressa Cantabrigiae Novae Angliae\\noppido. Liber summae raritatis. V. Clement.\\nBibl. cur. T. iv. Freytag Anacleta.\\nIncrease Mather, while president of Harvard\\nCollege, presented the universities at Utrecht\\nand Leyden, Holland, with Eliot Bibles of\\n1685, which are still preserved in the libra-\\nries of those institutions. The Eliot of 1663,\\nin the library of the British Museum, was\\nonce the property of Hon. Edward Everett,\\nUnited States minister to Great Britain. He\\npresented it to Hon. Thomas Grenville, who\\nbequeathed his library to the Museum. Hon.\\nRufus King, minister to England in 1796, was\\nthe owner of an Eliot Bible of 1685, which is\\nnow in the hands of his descendants in this\\ncountry. Hon. Thomas Aspinwall, United\\nStates consul in England in 1815, possessed\\nan Eliot New Testament of 1661. Brown Uni-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 25\\nversity, Providence, R.I., has a copy of the\\nsame year, which belonged to Koger Williams,\\nand has notes in the margin in his own hand-\\nwriting. The Bible in the library of Yale Col-\\nlege has the signature of John Winthrop, doubt-\\nless the Winthrop who was governor of Con-\\nnecticut in 1698. Mr. Morgan of New York\\nowns a first edition of Eliot that has the signa-\\nture of White Kennett, who was the Bishop of\\nPeterborough in 1718. One of the finest and\\nmost desirable of the Eliot Bibles of 1663 is\\nknown to collectors as the Allan copy, from\\nits having belonged to John Allan, the antiqua-\\nrian. It is one of the Royal copies, contain-\\ning the dedication to Charles the Second. It\\ncontains the autograph of William Ashurst,\\nwho was an active member of the Corporation\\nfor Propagating the Gospel in New England,\\nand who became eventually its Governor. This\\ngives this Bible peculiar interest. It was sold\\nat the Brinley sale for $900, and is now the\\nproperty of Mrs. Laura Eliot Cutter of Brook-\\nlyn, N.Y., who is a lineal descendant of John", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26 EARLY BIBLES.\\nEliot by the sixth generation. The Eliot that\\noriginally belonged to the Marquis of Hast-\\nings is in the library of the late John Carter\\nBrown, Providence, R.I. As might be ex-\\npected, there are several Bibles that contain the\\nsignatures of their former Indian owners, and\\nthese books in most cases give evidence in\\nblackened and well-thumbed pages of the con-\\nstant use they had in their day.\\nJohn Eliot died at the advanced age of eighty-\\nsix, after a life replete with usefulness. His\\nunselfishness, his devotion to duty, his broad\\nsympathies, his strength and gentleness of char-\\nacter, all made him a central figure in the history\\nof colonial times in America. De Ponseau called\\nhim The Augustine of New England. But\\nthe title The Apostle to the Indians has for\\ngenerations been associated with his name wher-\\never mentioned. In literature it appeared early,\\nfor Dr. Leuden, who was professor of Hebrew\\nat Utrecht, Holland, dedicated in 1661 his Eng-\\nlish and Hebrew Psalter to Eliot, the venera-\\nble Apostle to the Indians in America. The", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE ELIOT BIBLE. 27\\nfirst use of the appellation is attributed to Rev.\\nThomas Thorowgood, who first used it in 1660.\\nIt was well applied for Eliot had the apostolic\\nspirit, as indicated in a life-long consecration.\\nEvidently the thought that guided him at all\\ntimes was that which he once wrote on the blank\\nleaf of his Indian grammar in these words\\nPrayers and pains, through Christ Jesus, will\\ndo anything.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE.\\nDuring the early days of the American col-\\nonies many Germans settled in Pennsylvania.\\nThey were as a class frugal and peaceable.\\nThey preferred, for the most part, the agri-\\ncultural districts, where, by their industry, they\\nacquired homes, and earned a generous living.\\nAmong these settlers was Christopher Saur,^ a\\nman who rose to a position of commanding\\ninfluence among his countrymen. He was born\\nat Laasphe in Witgenstein, Germany, in 1693.\\nHe received his education at the University of\\nHalle, where he studied medicine. He came to\\nthis country in 1724, and settled at German-\\n1 Mr. Saur changed the spelling of his name when writing\\nin English to Sower, and his descendants follow the same\\nspelling. For the sake of uniformity, the German way of\\nspelling the word, as found on the titlepage of the Saur\\nBible, has been retained in this article.\\n28", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "BIBLIA\\nit\\n((^e*\\nmtnu\\nBum ^m^mit\\nt le e^ EapittB fiitfrn \u00c2\u00a9ummatieii/\\nmtmmmm\\n(itMtkt) ^m9ovf %Mt) 1743-\\nFac-simile of the title-page of the Saur Bible of 1743. Kedueed size.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 29\\ntown, but in tlie same year went to Lancaster\\nCounty and engaged in farming. In 1731 lie\\nreturned to Germantown, and followed the\\npractice of medicine. As he was a man of\\ndecided convictions in matters of morality and\\nreligion, he became interested in bettering the\\ntemporal and spiritual condition of the Ger-\\nmans about him. He found them destitute to a\\ngreat extent of reading matter in their own\\ntongue. He at once began to import Bibles\\nand various religious books for their use. As\\nmany of them were poor, he induced several\\nBible societies in Germany to donate copies of\\nthe Scriptures, and especially the publishing\\nhouses at Halle and Biidingen. As time went\\non, and the intellectual wants of the German\\npeople became more evident, he urged the pub-\\nlication of books and papers in America. He\\nknew nothing of printing; but an emergency\\narose which drew him into the business, which\\nhe followed the remainder of his life with devo-\\ntion and enthusiasm. Thomas says, The Bap-\\ntists, or Tunkers, in Germany raised by sub-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "30 EARLY BIBLES.\\nscription a sum of money, in order to purchase\\nreligious books and disperse them among their\\npoor friends in Pennsylvania, and to establish a\\npress there to print for the same purpose.\\nAccordingly a press and types, with a quantity\\nof books, were sent out and intrusted to the\\nmanagement of a German Baptist by the name\\nof Jacob Gaus. He was to have the use of,\\nand the emolument arising from, the press, on\\ncondition that he should distribute a certain\\nnumber of copies of each of the religious books\\nhe should print among the poor Germans.\\nThis person did not possess the ability necessary\\nfor the undertaking, and no other person who\\nwas thought to have sufficient ability for the\\npurpose was found to take his place. The busi-\\nness was suspended, and the press and type\\nviewed as useless lumber. It was at this\\npoint that Mr. Saur came into possession of the\\nproperty. He set up his press, imported work-\\nmen from Germany, and launched his publish-\\ning enterprise.\\nIn 1738 he began the printing of an almanac,\\n1 Thomas s History of Printing in America, vol. i. p. 271.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 31\\nwhich was the first one in German printed in\\nthis country. It was very small at first, con-\\nsisting of only twelve pages. It was enlarged\\nin 1743 to sixteen pages, but by 1750 it had\\nincreased to forty-eight pages. Its publication\\nwas continued for forty years.\\nSo great was the faith of the Germans in the\\nintegrity of Mr. Saur that in seriousness they\\nconsulted his almanac for weather predictions.\\nA farmer, about to make a journey, referred to\\nhis almanac and found the day marked fair.\\nHe went in an open wagon, but ere long a\\nshower drenched him through and through. In\\ngreat anger he called upon Mr. Saur for an\\nexplanation. The sturdy German quietly re-\\nplied, My friend, I made the almanac, but\\nthe Almighty made the weather. Mr. Saur\\nprinted the first number of a religious news-\\npaper on August 20, 1789, and also began the\\npublication of a religious quarterly, in German,\\nin 1746. These publications had a large circu-\\nlation among the German population. The\\nnewspaper was the first religious newspaper", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "32 EARLY BIBLES.\\nissued in this country. It is said to have\\nreached a circulation of ten thousand copies,\\nwhich was large for that time.\\nThrough this almanac and newspaper Mr.\\nSaur urged the publication of a German Bible,\\nand pleaded for help. In 1739 he issued his\\nProposal. It is in several respects unique, and\\nworth quoting nearly in full. He writes,\\nTherefore, as we think we have some abilities to meet\\nthis great desideratum, we are also willing to contribute all\\nthat is in our power thereto. But as the publishing of such\\na work requires a much greater outlay than our means are\\nadequate to, we deem it necessary that all the subscribers,\\nor, to speak plainly, all those who desire a copy of the Bible\\nshall notify us, and pay half a crown which is necessary:\\nFirst, that we may know a little how many we may venture\\nto print. Second, to assist us in our payments, as the paper\\nfor one Bible alone costs 7s. 6d. Thirdly, that if we should\\nbe necessitated to involve ourselves by loans in getting it up,\\nwe may have something to depend on to relieve us again\\nfrom our embarrassments; and lastly, as the covmtry is so\\nnew yet that we have no example of the kind to pattern\\nafter.\\nThe form shall be long quarto; that is, the height and\\nbreadth like this page, and with the same type, which we\\nthink sufficiently readable to old and young. In thickness,\\nit shall be about the breadth of a hand, for we are willing to\\ntake good paper to it.\\nNotes or comments we will add none, as we hope that\\nall those who read the Holy Scriptures with a sincere heart,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 33\\nwill, through the teachings of the fear of God, which is the\\nbeginning of all wisdom, become sufficiently acquainted\\nwith the sinfulness and depravity of his heart, to seek for\\nan interest in the Saviour, through whose redeeming power\\nhe will be taught to love Him and keep His words; then the\\nFather will love him and come unto him, and they will\\nmake their abode with him. And if the Godhead thus\\ndwells in him, then the Holy Ghost will be the best com-\\nmentator of His own words as Moses, the Prophets, and\\nChrist, the Apostles, and Evangelists have spoken and re-\\ncorded them; and that, then, will be the correctest and\\nmost reliable commentary.\\nConcerning the price, we cannot say precisely: First,\\nbecause we do not know yet how many we shall print, for\\nthe smaller the number, the higher the price will be, and\\nthe larger the number, the lower the price will be. Second,\\nbecause several friends of the Truth have, out of love to\\nGod, and for the good of their needy neighbors, already con-\\ntributed toward it, and others have offered to do so. Partly,\\nthat its price may be so low that the parsimonious and\\navaricious may have no excuse, and those of lesser means,\\nno burden. Therefore, in proportion to the number of such\\nbenefactors, and as our own means will enable us to do, the\\nprice will be. But this much we may say, that all unbound,\\nnone shall cost over fourteen shillings, which we hope will\\nnot be thought dear, especially when we consider that the\\npaper alone is at least four times as high here as it is in\\nGermany.\\nTo print a Bible at that day was an immense\\nundertaking, for type was not as yet manufac-\\ntured in the new country. Workmen were few,\\nand financial aid slow in coming. But Mr.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "34 EARLY BIBLES.\\nSaur persisted in his appeals, and believed in\\nthe ultimate success of his plans. He appealed\\nto Germany for assistance, as well as to friends\\nin America. His plea was not in vain. Mr.\\nHeinrich Ehrenfried Luther, a type-founder of\\nFrankfort-on-the-Main, presented him with a\\nfont of type, asking no other compensation than\\nto receive a copy of the Bible when completed.\\nMr. Luther was not only a prominent type-\\nfounder, but a man of literary attainments who\\nreceived university honors. As a lawyer of\\nability, he filled the position of Court Coun-\\nsellor of Wiirtemberg. At that time, Frank-\\nfort-on-the-Main was one of the four free cities\\nof Germany. He was born in the above city in\\nthe year 1700, and died in 1770.\\nAs soon as the type was received, work upon\\nthe Bible began. The book was three years in\\ngoing through the press, and the last sheet was\\nfinished in August, 1743. Considering the\\nearly day at which the Saur Bible was printed,\\nit is an admirable example of workmanship.\\nIt was the first Bible printed in America in\\na European language.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 35\\nThe Title-Page:\\nSBiblia, I \u00c2\u00a9as ifl: bie \u00c2\u00a7eUlge \u00c2\u00a9d^rift Slltes unb 9?eue3\\nSefiaments, nad) bet \u00c2\u00a9eutfc^en Ueberfe^ung 2)r. SKattin\\nSutlers, I Wilt jcbes SopitelS ^ur^en \u00c2\u00a9ummarien, au(^\\nbc^gefugten oielen unb rit^tigen *ParafleIen; ncbft einem 2[n\u00c2\u00ab\\nbang Ses britten unb Dierten 33uc^8 gjra unb bes britteu\\nSud^S ber liJiaccabaer.\\n\u00c2\u00a9ermantottjn:\\nI @ebrucftbe9(S^ri{}ot)^@aur,1743.\\nTranslation: The Bible, That is the Holy\\nScriptures of the Old and New Testaments,\\nafter the German translation of Dr. Martin\\nLuther, with short summaries to every chapter,\\nalso many and correct parallel references, be-\\nsides an Appendix of the Third and Fourth\\nBooks of Ezra, and the Third Book of Macca-\\nbees. Germantown: Printed by Christopher\\nSaur. 1743.\\nCollation Title, one leaf verso, blank. Pre-\\nface, one page. Order of Books of Old Testament,\\none page. Text, pp. 1-805. Apocrypha, pp.\\n806-949. Appendix, pp. 950-995. New Testa-\\nment title, one leaf. Preface, one leaf. Order\\nof Books, one page. Text, pp. 3-277. Register\\nof Epistles and Gospels for Sundays of Christian", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "36 EARLY BIBLES.\\nYear, two pages. Register of Epistles and Gos-\\npels for certain Saints Days, one leaf. Short\\nhistory of translations of the Bible, four pages.\\nPreface\\nWhile all books require a preface by means\\nof which the use and peculiarity of the book is\\nbriefly described, the Bible is in itself suffi-\\nciently known, and itself brings all that can only\\nbe written about above all It and every Scripture\\ngiven of God is useful, for doctrine, for reproof,\\nfor improvement, for instruction in righteousness,\\nthat a man of God may be perfect, equipped for\\nall good works, etc. (2 Tim. iii. 15, 16, 17). The\\nmoving causes for printing this present Bible,\\nhave been chiefly, as may be perceived Firstly,\\nthat so many poor Germans come to the country\\nwho do not all bring Bibles. Secondly, that so\\nmany are born and bred in the land, who also\\ndo not all know how to obtain Bibles, and it is\\nnoticed that the well-to-do usually care for\\nthemselves and theirs.\\nLuther s translation has been selected, be-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 37\\ncause most in keeping with the usual German\\nidiom, and though excellent translations, word\\nfor word, have all been discriminated in admi-\\nrable passages, yet his simply expresses but a\\nsingle idea. It is sure that he who reads those\\nScriptures with honest heart, which are clear\\nand plain and require no explanation, will,\\nthrough Christ s power, attain to practice, and\\nwill remain true to the selfsame One, who is to\\nbe placed over so many of God s mysteries as\\nare needful to his eternal salvation and he who\\nwill be a doer of the Word and not merely a\\nhearer or reader, deceive neither himself nor\\nanother. To whomsoever aught appears incom-\\nprehensible in reading, and he lacks true wis-\\ndom, let him ask it of God, who gives it richly\\nto him who asks in faith (James i. 5). And\\nif somewhat be not granted unto him for a sea-\\nson, he will recognize it as clear as the sun at\\nanother time, when he reaches the same stand-\\npoint where the Scripture is.\\nThe Halle Bible, in fact its 34th edition, has\\nbeen taken Firstly, because it is very rich in", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "38 EARLY BIBLES.\\nparallels. Secondly, because it is believed that\\nit contains the fewest printing mistakes, because\\nthe type-setting remains standing. The accusa-\\ntion that one has mixed his own with it, and\\nnot followed Luther s translation, is regarded\\nas unworthy of contradiction. It is before our\\neyes, and whoever compares our printing with\\nthe aforesaid edition, will find that not only has\\nit been adhered to, but that more than a hun-\\ndred printer s errors have been removed. The\\nlatter are remembered, not to censure that work,\\nbut that, should any one find that mistakes have\\nagain crept in without our knowledge, it may\\nbe forgiven us as unto other men.\\nMoreover, no explanations have been made,\\na procedure in which we are as much at liberty\\nas others Firstly, because by means of Scrip-\\nture parallelisms, one phrase frequently illumi-\\nnates another in the Spiritual sense. Secondly,\\nbecause it is certain that to him who reads the\\nScriptures with an upright heart, the Holy\\nSpirit in the heart reveals His true meaning\\nby the reading itself and according as every", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 39\\nbeliever himself undergoes such an experience\\nin himself, individually, so one believes assuredly\\nthat the time nears when the whole earth shall\\nbe full of the knowledge of the Lord (Isa. ii. 9),\\nand there shall be no need that brother teach\\nbrother and admonish him to know the Lord\\n(Jer. xxxi. 34). But they shall all be taught of\\nGod, both small and great, when He shall pour\\nout His Spirit on all flesh, that sons and daugh-\\nters prophesy, young men see visions, and the\\nold men dream dreams, and His Spirit shall\\nflow upon His servants and handmaids (Joel\\nii. 28-32). So will He himself make clear His\\nmeaning, and show His might, yea, verily, be\\nthe Word itself. Flee hither, who can; come\\nsoon, Lord Jesus.\\nThe Saur Bible is a quarto, bound in bevelled\\nboards, covered with strong leather, with the\\ncovers held together with clasps. It is printed\\nin double columns, with parallel references, and\\nthere are short summaries at the head of each\\nchapter. There is an ornamented headpiece at\\nthe beginning of Genesis, and another before", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "40 EARLY BIBLES.\\nthe Gospel of St. Matthew. The general title-\\npage is printed in black and red. The edition\\nconsisted of twelve hundred copies, and the\\nprice was eighteen shillings that is, about two\\ndollars and a half.\\nMr. Saur did not forget his obligation to Mr.\\nH. E. Luther, for he had twelve copies of his\\nBible substantially bound, and sent them on\\nthe 5th of December, 1743, to Germany, by the\\nship Queen of Hungary. The vessel, when\\nnear St. Malmo, was attacked by French and\\nSpanish pirates, and all the cargo was captured.\\nAt the expiration of two years, through some\\nunknown events, the Bibles reached their des-\\ntination, and came into the possession of Mr.\\nLuther. There are persons who regard this\\naccount as highly romantic, and quite improba-\\nble, but there can be no doubt of its truthful-\\nness. Mr. Luther gave one copy to the Royal\\nLibrary at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where it is\\nnow preserved. From the presentation inscrip-\\ntion in Latin we learn that the Bible was given\\nto the library in the year 1745 that is, two", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 41\\nyears after its publication. Here we have in-\\ndirect testimony that it was two years in reach-\\ning Germany. But the truth of the account is\\nplaced beyond all question by the direct confir-\\nmation of it by Mr. Luther in his own hand-\\nwriting. He presented one of the twelve copies\\nof the Saur Bible to the Duchess Elizabeth\\nSophie Marie von Braunschweig, who had a col-\\nlection of several thousand rare editions of the\\nHoly Scriptures. At her death she bequeathed\\nthe collection to the Ducal Library at Wolfen-\\nbiittel, Germany. The librarian of this institu-\\ntion, Dr. O. von Heinemann, in a letter bearing\\ndate February 8th, 1892, speaks of the presenta-\\ntion volume as well preserved and well bound.\\nIn regard to the story of the Bibles falling into\\nthe hands of pirates, he says,\\nAll this is stated in a note, written in Latin and\\nsigned by Luther with his own hand, attached to the inside\\nof the front cover of our copy; as well as in a German\\ntranslation of the same, entirely in Luther s handwriting,\\ninserted in the book.\\nBut the most interesting evidence of all is that\\nwritten in the copy which Mr. Luther retained", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "42 EARLY BIBLES.\\nfor his own library. This book is now in the\\npossession of Dr. J. Haeberlin, of Frankfort-on-\\nthe-Main, who is Mr. Luther s great-great-\\ngrandson, and the inheritor of his possessions.\\nIn a letter dated March 6, 1892, Dr. Haeberlin\\nhas given some very important information con-\\ncerning Luther s copy of the Saur Bible, He\\nstates that it contains the following dedication\\nTHIS HOLY BOOK,\\nBy the Aid of God\\nrecently published in the German language in\\nThe Western World,\\nwith types from the Luther Printing House, which has\\nflourished in Frankfort since the invention of printing,\\nunder the widely known name of\\nEGENOLF,\\nand still continues to prosper,\\nWAS the very first\\npreceded by none in the English, Dutch, or any other lan-\\nguage, and was sent with eleven other copies on account of\\nits being a novel and rare production, by the publisher,\\nChristopher Saur,\\nto Europe\\nBut,\\nthe queen of HUNGARY\\nso the ship was called, under the command of the\\nEnglishman Faulkner, after having successfully completed\\nthe greater portion of the journey, not far from the head-\\nland of the Isle Maclovius, known under the name of\\nST. MALMO,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 43\\nfell into the hands of\\nFrench and Spanish Pirates,\\nwho offered the ship with its cargo of wares and these\\n12 copies,\\nthe Apostles of the Western World, as it were,\\nat public sale,\\nuntil they all finally, through a wonderful dispensation of\\nProvidence, after a lapse of two years, were released from\\nthe bands of robbers, and delivered uninjured to the Luther\\nPrinting House, to whom they owed their existence. De-\\npart, then, my Book, and become in consideration of thy\\nmarvellous fortunes, under the name of\\nApostle,\\ntogether with thy similarly delivered companion volumes, a\\npermanent ornament of the most noted libraries, in fulfil-\\nment of the well considered wish and will of the donor,\\nwhose written, not printed name follows.\\nLUTHEK, DR.\\nFrankfort-on-the-Main, January 1, 1747.\\nIt is evident that Mr. Luther was not aware\\nof the fact that the Eliot Bible had been printed\\nin America nearly a hundred years before, or he\\nwould not have said that the Saur Bible, was\\nthe very first, preceded by none in the English,\\nDutch, or any other language.\\nMr. Luther presented a third copy of the\\noriginal twelve Bibles to Count Keyserlingk.\\nThis volume is now in the Royal Library at", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "44 EARLY BIBLES.\\nStuttgart. Dr. T. Schott, the librarian, in a\\nletter of February 8tli, 1892, writes\\nThe copy is evidently in its original binding of English\\nleather. The sections of the back are ornamented with\\nsmall gold toolings, and the front and back covers have\\nprettily shaped designs in the leather. There is a middle\\nfield, or centre-piece. On the inside of the front cover is a\\nprinted dedication from E. H. Luther to Count Hermann\\nKarl Keyserlingk, Counsellor of the Empress Elizabeth of\\nRussia. According to the Latin inscription, the Count\\nlived for several years in Luthers hous e. The same is\\ndated Frankfort, Dec, 1745.\\nOver the dedication is a coat-of-arms, most likely that of\\nLuther. It consists of a shield parted diagonally from\\nupper right-hand corner to lower left, on which is a gallop-\\ning winged horse. In the upper left-hand corner is a small\\ndivision representing three mountain tops, on the middle\\none of which is a cross. The crest is also decorated with\\nthese three mountain tops and cross.\\nThe last owner before the copy came into the posses-\\nsion of the Royal Library of Stuttgart was the well-known\\ncollector of Bibles, Pastor J. Lorck of Copenhagen. The\\ncopy is in every respect splendidly preserved.\\nA fourtb presentation copy is now preserved\\nin the Prince Stolberg Library at Wernigerode.\\nA fifth copy was given by Mr. Luther to Dr.\\nRuppersburg of Marburg. Members of his\\nfamily came to this country in 1843 and\\nbrought the Bible with them, but just where\\nit is in the United States is not known.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 45\\nA sixth copy was given to the Landes Biblio-\\nthek at Cassel, and the seventh to the Ducal\\nLibrary at Gotha, where they are preserved.\\nAn eighth copy was presented by Mr. Luther\\nto Count Heinrich de Bunan, and this is now\\nin the possession of the Royal Library at\\nDresden, Germany.\\nIt contains a presentation inscription in these\\nwords\\nTHIS HOLY BOOK\\nNEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN THE WESTERN WORLD\\nin either English, Dutch, or any other language, but now\\nunder Divine protection, for the first time in German, and\\nby tjrpes from his own foundry, is presented with the hope\\nthat it will give pleasure as a rarity, and on account of its\\ncoming from a remote land, to the Library of\\nTHE ILLUSTRIOUS HEINRICH DE BUNAN,\\nCOUNT OP\\nTHE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE,\\nPRIVY COUNCILLOR\\nOF HIS CHRISTIAN MAJESTY,\\nand of\\nTHE IMPERIAL COURT,\\nand\\nAMBASSADOR OF THE SAME TO THE\\nORDERS OF THE CIRCLE OF THE RHINE\\nAND LOWER SAXONY,\\nBy\\nHEINRICH EHRENFRIED LUTHER, J.N.D. C.W.A.\\nFrankfort-on-the-Main; July, 1747.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "46 EARLY BIBLES.\\nDr. Haeberlin states that in Luther s copy,\\nwhich he retained for himself, there is a\\nmemorandum in his own hand-writing of the\\ndisposition he made of the remaining eleven\\ncopies. The list is as follows St. Petersburg,\\nStockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hanover, Dres-\\nden, Gotha, Weimar, Braunschweig, Cassel,\\nand Stuttgart. It will be observed that no\\nmention is made in this list of the copy\\npresented to the Royal Library at Frankfort-\\non-the-Main, or of the copy given to Dr.\\nRuppersburg. Whether these were additional\\ncopies received from Mr. Saur, or whether they\\nbelonged to the original twelve, and had\\nchanged hands, is not at present known. Of\\nthe Bibles that were sent to individuals or\\npublic libraries at St. Petersburg, Stockholm,\\nCopenhagen, Berlin, Hanover, and Weimar,\\nno information has been received, though it\\nhas been solicited. It will be seen that we\\nhave located nine of the presentation copies,\\nand it is to be hoped that in time the remain-\\ning three may be traced.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 47\\nThe encouragement and support that Mr.\\nLuther gave Saur, in publishing the Bible\\nin this country, not only called out the grati-\\ntude of the German residents, but of all who\\nwere interested in the advancement of morals\\nand religion. Dr. Haeberlin says, In later\\nyears, when Franklin visited Europe, he per-\\nsonally thanked Luther. He also writes, Mr.\\nLuther was given a large land grant, which he,\\nhowever, never claimed, as he scorned to receive\\nany material compensation. I do not know\\nwhat became of the deed of the property.\\nNotwithstanding the energy and enterprise of\\nMr. Saur in giving his countrymen the Bible in\\ntheir own language, he did not receive the sup-\\nport and gratitude he deserved. He was\\naccused of selfish and mercenary motives.\\nThose who differed from him in his religious\\nopinions denounced his Bible even before it\\nappeared. Booksellers tried to undersell him\\nby offering imported Bibles at low rates.\\nAnother class raised opposition by declar-\\ning that his Bible was not a genuine ren-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "48 EARLY BIBLES.\\ndering of the Lutheran translation. Relative\\nto this last charge he wrote, All that our\\nadversaries can possibly say against us is con-\\ncerning our appendix of the 3rd and 4th Books\\nof Esdras, and the 3rd Book of the Maccabees,\\nwhich is not Luther s. The Halle edition of\\n1708 contained it, but our 34th edition did not,\\nor we should have followed it. Hence, there-\\nfore, we added it from the Berlinberger edition,\\nwhich we think every child that has the least\\nspark of godliness in him must love and revere.\\nBut whoever does not like it can inform us,\\nand we will omit it in the binding. So, also,\\nour addenda of the various translations.\\nMr. Saur made every effort to promote the\\nreading of the Scriptures by bringing his Bible\\nwithin the reach of all who desired it. Just\\nbefore it was completed he wrote,\\nThe price of our now nearly finished Bible\\nin plain binding with a clasp will be eighteen\\nshillings, but to the poor and needy we have\\nno price.\\nMr. Saur was a many-sided man, and had", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 49\\nmuch ingenuity and versatility. He erected a\\nmill for manufacturing his own paper and ink.\\nHe also did his own binding, and contrived to\\ncast the type he needed. The remarkable\\nstatement has been made of him that he was\\nfamiliar with sixteen trades. The business,\\nnow so extensive, of making cast-iron stoves is\\nsaid to have originated with him. The profes-\\nsion of medicine he never abandoned.\\nMr. Saur died in 1758, at the age of sixty-\\nfive, and was buried in the rear of his dwelling\\nat Gerniantown.\\nHe was succeeded in business by his only\\nson of the same name. He, like his father, was\\na man of pronounced executive ability. He\\nenlarged the business and continued the publi-\\ncation of the newspaper and almanac. In addi-\\ntion he printed and bound over two hundred\\nbooks. Several mills were engaged in manu-\\nfacturing his paper, and he had workmen to\\nengrave his woodcuts. He built a type foun-\\ndry, which was the first of its kind in this coun-\\ntry. This gave him all the type he needed, and", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "50 EARLY BIBLES.\\nenabled him to supply otlier printers. This\\nfoundry expanded as the years went on, and is\\nnow represented by the firm of L. Johnson\\nCo. of Philadelphia, who are at the head of\\nthe largest type establishment in the United\\nStates.\\nIn 1763 Christopher Saur printed the second\\nedition of the German Bible. It is a quarto,\\nand resembles the first edition in its general\\nappearance, but differs from it in some respects.\\nBoth the title-pages are printed in black, and\\nthe type throughout the book is set closer. A\\nportion of the last chapter of the Fourth Book\\nof Ezra, and the whole of the Third Book of\\nMaccabees, are printed in smaller type than the\\nother parts of the book. The letters of the gen-\\neral title also differ in size from those of the\\nfirst edition. The preface is a new one, and is\\nentirely unlike that of the Bible of 1743. The\\nopening sentence reads\\nHerewith appear, in tliis American part of the world,\\nthe Holy Scriptures called the Bible publicly printed\\nfor the second time in the High German language, to the\\nhonor of the German nation, inasmuch as no other", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 51\\nnation can claim to have printed the Bible, in this part of\\nthe world, in its own language.\\nThis second issue of the Bible consisted of\\nan edition of two thousand copies.\\nThirteen years later Mr. Saur was prepared\\nto send out the third edition of the German\\nBible, that of 1776, which was also the last.\\nThe printing of the three thousand copies\\nthe extent of the edition had been completed,\\nand the leaves had been stitched together and\\nawaited the finishing touches of the binder in\\napplying the covers but the war between the\\ncolonies and Great Britain interrupted the\\nwork.\\nAt the invasion of Germantown Mr. Saur\\nfled from the place, and the British troops\\ndestroyed nearly all the copies of the Bible, bj\\nconverting the leaves into litter for their horses,\\nand by using the paper for their cartridges.\\nCatharine Saur, the daughter of the pub-\\nlisher, secured ten copies, and after they were\\nbound presented them to her children.\\nThe preface is the same as that of the edition", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "52 EARLY BIBLES.\\nof 1763. It is signed, but not dated. The second\\nedition is dated Germantown, December 8th,\\n1763. The title-pages are the same, and a\\nsimilar reduction of the type in the middle of\\nthe book. Substantially, the editions of 1763\\nand 1776 are one and the same.\\nSaur died in 1784, leaving five sons and three\\ndaughters. His business, though sadly dis-\\nturbed by the war, descended to his son, Chris-\\ntopher Saur the third. Generations of printers\\nsprang from this stock, and the publishing\\nhouse in Philadelphia still bearing the name of\\nSaur can point back to an honorable record\\nextending over one hundred and fifty years.\\nThere were but three issues of the Saur Bibles,\\nbut a number of editions of the New Testa-\\nment in German. These publications bear the\\ndates of 1745, 1755, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1764,\\n1769, and 1775. The editions of 1761 and 1764\\nare extremely rare. O Callaghan does not men-\\ntion them, and evidently was not aware of their\\nexistence. The first edition of the Saur Bible\\nthat of 1743 is a scarce book, and commands", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE SAUR BIBLE. 63\\na high price. A copy offered at the Brinley sale\\na few years ago brought |350. The editions of\\n1763 and 1776 are not considered as valuable.\\nNearly all the copies of the Saur Bible are\\nowned in the United States and Germany.^ No\\nlibrary making a specialty of Americana can be\\nconsidered complete without possessing this\\nBible, the first printed in this country in a Eu-\\nropean language.\\nThe New Testament in German was pub-\\nlished in several places in the United States\\nafter the Saur Bible of 1776, but no issue of\\nthe entire Bible in German was undertaken for\\nthirty years. Then, in 1805, Gottlob Yung-\\nmann published at Reading, Pa., a German\\nBible in quarto. In typography and general\\nappearance it resembles the Saur Bible, and\\nmay be considered a continuation of it, and evi-\\ndently the publisher so intended it to be. In\\nthe preface he says,\\nIn this part of the world, which is called the American\\nUnited States, there appear once more, after a lapse of\\nthirty years, the Holy Scriptures (which are also called the\\n1 Appendix F.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "54 EARLY BIBLES.\\nBible), publicly printed in the High German language, to\\nthe honor of the descendants of the old German nation.\\nWhether a Bible in the language mentioned will again\\nmake its appearance in these United States, is open to\\nmuch and great doubt, more especially as the German lan-\\nguage is declining in them with such extraordinary rapid-\\nity, and is suffering English, as the established and gener-\\nally used, and, indeed, preferable language, to make aston-\\nishing progress. Whether this is to be ascribed more to\\nthe industrious reading of the Holy Scriptures by the\\nEnglish descendants in this part of the world, or to some-\\nthing else, whatever it may be, I will not here inquire, but\\nrecommend it to every individual German descendant him-\\nself, for investigation and alteration.\\nAfter speaking of the value of the Word of\\nGod to apostate human creatures, he refers\\nto Christopher Saur, and ends by quoting\\nnearly the whole of the preface of the Saur\\nBible of 1776. This publication by Yungmann\\nnever reached a second edition.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE.\\nMe. Isaiah Thomas, in his History of\\nPrinting in America, when referring to the\\nbooksellers of Boston, says, Kneeland and\\nGreen printed, principally for Daniel Hench-\\nman, an edition of the Bible in small 4to. This\\nwas the first Bible printed in America, in the\\nEnglish language. It was carried through the\\npress as privately as possible, and has the Lon-\\ndon imprint of the copy from which it was re-\\nprinted, viz., London Printed by Mark Bas-\\nkett. Printer to the King s Most Excellent Ma-\\njesty, in order to prevent a prosecution from\\nthose in England and Scotland, who published\\nthe Bible by a patent from the crown, or cum\\nprivilegio, as did the English universities of Ox-\\nford and Cambridge. When I was an ap-\\n1 Thomas s History of Printing, vol. i., pp. 107, 108.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "56 EARLY BIBLES.\\nprentice, I often heard those who had assisted at\\nthe case and press in printing this Bible make\\nmention of the fact. The late Governor Han-\\ncock was related to Henchman, and knew the\\nparticulars of the transaction. He possessed a\\ncopy of this impression. As it has a London\\nimprint, at this day it can be distinguished from\\nan English edition of the same date only by\\nthose who are acquainted with the niceties of\\ntypography. This Bible issued from the press\\nabout the time that the partnership of Kneeland\\nand Green expired. The edition was not large\\nI have been informed that it did not exceed\\nseven or eight hundred copies.\\nThe correctness of this statement has been\\nassailed by Mr. Bancroft, who, in his History\\nof the United States, says that Thomas re-\\npeats only what he heard. Himself a collector,\\nhe does not profess ever to have seen a copy of\\nthe alleged American edition of the English\\nBible. Search has repeatedly been made for a\\ncopy and always without success. Six or eight\\n1 Bancroft s History of the United States, vol. v., p. 266.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "iHOLY BIBLE,!\\nf\\nContaining the Old ana Nevt I\\nI TEST AM E N T Si i\\nI Newly tranflatcd out of the\\nI Original Tongues;\\ni\\nAnd with the fornricr\\nTRANSLATIONS\\nDiligfiltly compared and rcvifed.\\niP H I L A D E L P n I A:\\nI Printeii AND Soto BT R. AITKEKV^T PorK s i\\nt HbAD, i HRF.E DooRt. AHOVi: lllECoiVKC\\njj V liou -.K, IN Makkii- ST#\u00c2\u00a3BT. a\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Jt X M.JJCC.f. X X Sll.\\ni\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab(\u00c2\u00abr\\nFac-simile of the title page of the Aitken Bible, 17S2. Exact size.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 57\\nhundred Bibles in quarto could hardly have\\nbeen printed, bound, and sold in Boston, then a\\nsmall town, undiscovered. Nor would they all\\nhave disappeared. The most complete cata-\\nlogues of English Bibles enumerate no one with\\nthe imprint which was said to have been copied.\\nTill a copy of the pretended American edition\\nis produced no credit can be given to the sec-\\nond-hand story.\\nAs no copy of this supposed Bible has ever\\nbeen identified, Mr. O Callaghan omits it from\\nhis List of Bibles printed in America. Any\\ntestimony in the handwriting of Mr. Aitken\\nthat his Bible published in 1782 was the first\\nBible printed in America in the English lan-\\nguage would be of great value, for he could not\\nmake this claim, if in his day some other edition\\nhad already claimed it. Fortunately, we have\\nthis testimony in Mr. Aitken s own words, writ-\\nten with his own hand. In the British Museum\\nthere is to be seen a copy of the Aitken Bible\\nin two volumes. The following note is on the\\nback of the title-page of the first volume, in the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "58 EARLY BIBLES.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0writing of Mr. Aitken This first copy of the\\nfirst edition of the Bible ever printed in Amer-\\nica in the English language, is presented to\\nEbenezar Hazard, Esq., by the Editor. In-\\nserted at the beginning of the second volume is\\na letter as follows\\nPhiladelphia, July 6, 1844.\\nDeae Sir, I send you herewith the copy of the Bible\\npublished in this city in 1782 by Robert Aitken, which you\\nmay be assured I part with, with great regret, as well be-\\ncause it was presented by the publisher to my father, as\\nbecause it is, according to the certificate on the fly-leaf in\\nMr. Aitken s own handwriting, the first copy of the first\\nedition ever printed in America in the English language,\\nthe first sheets having been carefully laid aside for my father\\nwho was very intimate with the publisher until the\\nwhole work was completed.\\nYours truly,\\nSam Hazabd.\\nChas. Marshall, Esq.\\nThis Bible was formerly in the collection of\\nMr. Lea Wilson, and was bought by the British\\nMuseum in 1849. The books are in the original\\nbinding of olive-green leather. The two volumes\\nare divided at the end of Ecclesiastes, a division\\npeculiar to this set, as in other copies the sec-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 59\\nond volume begins with the Gospel of St.\\nMatthew. In some cases the volumes were\\nbound in one.\\nRobert Aitken was a native of Dalkeith,\\nScotland, and emigrated to America in 1769,\\nand settled at Philadelphia as a bookseller. In\\n1771 he added bookbinding to his business, hav-\\ning learned that art in Edinburgh. Later, in\\n1774, he became a publisher. The war of the\\ncolonies with Great Britain interrupted com-\\nmerce, and books were difficult to procure, and\\nespecially Bibles. The urgency in this direc-\\ntion was so great that a memorial was presented\\nto Congress suggesting and urging the printing\\nof Bibles in America. The committee to whom\\nthe memorial was referred reported in the\\nautumn of 1777 that the difficulty of procuring\\ntype and paper was so great that they recom-\\nmended Congress to advance the money for pub-\\nlishing an edition of the Bible, or, if this was not\\nexpedient, to order the importation of a number\\nsufficient to meet the demand. Congress re-\\nsolved upon the latter course, and directed the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "60 EARLY BIBLES.\\ncommittee to import twenty thousand copies of\\nthe Bible. During the agitation of this subject\\nMr. Aitken was encouraged to issue an edition\\nof the New Testament, which appeared from his\\npress in Philadelphia in 1777. A copy pre-\\nserved in the Lenox Library, New York, enables\\nus to see how humble this effort was, for the\\nbook is but a small duodecimo. The title-page\\nis as follows\\nThe New\\nTESTAMENT\\nOP OUE LOKD AND SAVIOUE JESUS CHKIST;\\nNewly Translated out of the Original Greek\\nAnd with the former Translations\\nDILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.\\nAppointed to be read in Churches.\\nPHILADELPHIA\\nPRINTED AND SOLD BY\\nR. AITKEN,\\nPrinter and Bookseller,\\nFront Street.\\n1777.\\nSpectamur agendo.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 61\\nThese last words form a motto and are placed\\nin a scroll. The letters of the imprint are sup-\\nported by two children, and the crest is a bird\\nwith an olive-branch in its mouth. On the back\\nof the title-page are the words, The Order of\\nthe Books of the New Testament with their\\nNames, and the Numbers of their Chapters.\\nThe printed matter of the text runs from page 3\\nto page 353, and there are no headings. On the\\nverso of page 353 are these words Books\\nPrinted and Sold at R. Aitken s Printing Office\\nopposite the London Coffee-House Front-\\nStreet.\\nSecond and third editions of the New Testa-\\nment appeared in 1778 and 1779, and fourth and\\nfifth in 1780 and 1781. Encouraged by the re-\\nception which had been given the publication of\\nthe New Testament, Mr. Aitken announced his\\npurpose of printing an edition of the entire\\nBible, and in 1781 presented a petition to Con-\\ngress, seeking support and sanction. His peti-\\ntion was referred to a committee consisting\\nof Messrs. Duane, McKean, and Witherspoon.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "62 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThey reported in 1782 that they had watched\\nwith interest the work of Mr. Aitken, and\\nrecommended, in order that a safe opinion might\\nbe obtained of the correctness with which his\\nBible had been prepared for publication, that it\\nshould be submitted to the two chaplains of\\nCongress for their examination. The chaplains\\nwere the Rev. William White, D.D., afterward\\nthe Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. George\\nDuffield, D.D. September 10, 1782, they re-\\nported to the committee as follows\\nAgreeably to your desire we have paid at-\\ntention to Mr. Robert Aitken s impression of\\nthe Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testa-\\nment. Having selected and examined a variety\\nof passages throughout the work, we are of the,\\nopinion that it is executed with great accuracy\\nas to the sense, and with as few grammatical and\\ntypographical errors as could be expected in an\\nundertaking of such magnitude. Being our-\\nselves witnesses of the demand for this invalu-\\nable book, we rejoice in the present prospect of\\na supply, hoping that it will prove as advan-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 63\\ntageous as it is honorable to the gentleman who\\nhas exerted himself to furnish it at the evident\\nrisk of his private fortune.\\nIn agreement with this recommendation Con-\\ngress in 1782 Resolved, that the United States,\\nin Congress assembled, highly approve the\\npious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken\\nas subservient to the interests of religion as\\nwell as an instance of the progress of arts in\\nthis country and being satisfied from the above\\nreport of his care and accuracy in the execution\\nof the work, they recommend this edition of the\\nBible to the inhabitants of the United States,\\nand hereby authorize him to publish this recom-\\nmendation in the manner he shall think\\nproper.\\nMr. Aitken s Bible was issued from his press\\nin Philadelphia in 1782. It was usually bound\\nin two volumes, though in some cases copies\\nhave been found that are bound in one volume.\\nIt is in size a small duodecimo, printed in brevier\\ntype. The whole page measures 6 inches long\\nby 3i inches wide. The printed paper is 5|", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "64 EARLY BIBLES.\\ninches long and 3i inches wide. The title-page\\nreads\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE,\\nCONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW\\nTESTAMENTS:\\nNEWLY TBANSLATED OUT OF THE\\nORIGINAL TONGUES,\\nAND WITH THE FOKMEB\\nTRANSLATIONS\\nDILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nPRINTED AND SOLD BY E. AITKEN, AT POPE S\\nHead, Three doors above the Coffee House, in Market Street.\\nMDCCLXXXIL\\nThe title-page also contains the State arms of\\nPennsylvania, which consist of an escutcheon\\nwith representations of ship, plough, and\\nsheaves of wheat. The crest is an eagle, and\\nthe supporters, rampant horses. The motto is\\nVirtue, Liberty, and Independence. The back\\nof the title-page is blank. Then follow the\\nResolutions of Congress, occupying one and", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 65\\na half pages. The next half-page contains\\nNames and Order of all the Books of the O.\\nN. Test. The Bible throughout has no paging.\\nThe New Testament title-page is the same as\\nthat of the edition of the previous year, 1781.\\nIt reads as follows\\nTHE NEW\\nTESTAMENT\\nOF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR\\nJESUS CHRIST;\\nNEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE\\nORIGINAL GREEK;\\nAND WITH THE FOEMEE\\nTRANSLATIONS\\nDiligently compared and revised.\\nPHILADELPHIA\\nFEINTED AND SOLD BY E. AITKEN, BOOKSELLEB\\nOpposite the Coffee House, Front Street.\\nMDCCLXXXI.\\nThe title-page also contains a wood-cut of a\\nhat and flute. On the back of the same page\\nis this line\\nNames and Oedee of the Books of the N.T.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "6Q EARLY BIBLES.\\nBelow, in large letters, are found tlie initials\\nR. A.\\nThe publication of this Bible was not a finan-\\ncial success. It had to compete with imported\\nBibles that could be sold cheaper, because the\\ncost of printing was less. Moreover, the book\\nwas a small one and did not compare with larger\\nBibles as a specimen of the printer s art. Mr.\\nAitken seems to have been seriously embar-\\nrassed by his undertaking, and had the sympa-\\nthy of good people, who regretted the loss to\\nwhich he was subjected. At a Synod of Pres-\\nbyterians, held in Philadelphia on the 24th of\\nMay, 1783, it was Resolved, As Mr. Aitken,\\nfrom laudable motives, and with great expense,\\nhath undertaken and executed an elegant\\nimpression of the Holy Scriptures, which, on\\naccount of the importation of Bibles from Eng-\\nland, will be very injurious to his temporal cir-\\ncumstances, the Synod agree that the committee\\nto purchase Bibles for distribution among the\\npoor purchase Aitken s Bible and no other, and\\nearnestly recommend it to all to purchase such", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE AITKEN BIBLE. 67\\nin preference to any other. The Aitken Bible\\nis now the rarest of all early Bibles printed in\\nAmerica. It can be safely said that at the out-\\nside there are not more than twenty-five copies\\nin existence, and the number actually located\\n.falls below this statement. The list of owners\\nis a very short one.^ It is only about once in a\\ngeneration that a copy is offered for sale, and\\nconsequently it commands a high price. A few\\nyears ago, at the Washington sale, held in Phil-\\nadelphia, the two volumes of this Bible brought\\nThe Aitken Bible should animate the inter-\\nest of Americans, inasmuch as it was the first\\nBible printed in the English language in Amer-\\nica, and also because of the association of Con-\\ngress with it. It is a part of our national his-\\ntory, for which we should be grateful, because\\nit sets forth the fact that the founders of this\\nRepublic were men who were not ashamed of\\nthe revealed Truth. The term Bible Con-\\ngress, applied to our law-makers in that day,\\nwhether intended in derision or otherwise, was\\n1 Appendix G.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "68 EARLY BIBLES.\\nan epithet of honor. Whatever in power,\\nprogress, and grandeur we have attained as a\\nnation, we owe largelj to the respect and rever-\\nence which our fathers paid to the precious\\nWord of God.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST DOUAY VERSION.\\nTbde first quarto edition of the Bible in Eng-\\nlish printed in America was published in Phil-\\nadelphia in 1790. It was the Douay version\\nmade from the Latin Vulgate. Proposals for\\nprinting this Bible by subscription were sent\\nout in 1789 by Matthew Carey, a native of Ire-\\nland, located at Philadelphia as printer. It was\\nproposed to issue the book in forty-eight num-\\nbers, delivered weekly at a cost of six Spanish\\nmilled dollars for the entire volume of 984\\npages. Only about three of the numbers were\\ndelivered, when certain changes were made.\\nThe plan of issuing the Bible in numbers was\\ngiven up, and it was announced that it would be\\npublished in two volumes. The firm was also\\nchanged to Carey, Stewart Co. As an induce-\\n69", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "70 EARLY BIBLES.\\nment, it was stated that, if the number of sub-\\nscribers could be enlarged, the price would be\\nreduced. At the head of the subscribers stood\\nthe name of Rt. Rev. John Carroll of Balti-\\nmore. The new firm made an appeal not only\\nto the Roman Catholics of the United States,\\nbut to other bodies of Christians. The latter\\nappeal is here quoted in full. It is addressed\\nTo the Protestants in the United States.\\nWe venture with some degree of confidence to solicit\\nyour patronage as well as that of the Eoman Catholics for\\nthe first edition of the Douay translation of the Vulgate\\nBible.\\nMany of the most learned Protestant divines have pro-\\nduced weighty objections to particular passages in the Com-\\nmon Church of England translations of the Scriptures. That\\nthere are various important errors in it, is too well known\\nto admit of controversy. The frequent demands for a new\\ntranslation bear the strongest testimony to the truth of this\\nobservation it is therefore worthy the attention of every\\ncandid Protestant to consider whether a comparison of the\\npresent translation with his own would not enable him to\\ndetect most, if not all of them and thus to remove from\\nhis mind those doubts and difficulties which are fatal to true\\nreligion.\\nLiberal minded Protestants who glory in the influence of\\nthe benign sun of toleration will probably be happy in an\\nopportunity of uniting their names with those of the Eoman", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST DOUAY VERSION. 71\\nCatholics who have supported this work and thus evin-\\ncing that they are superior to that wretched, that contempti-\\nble prejudice which confines its benevolence within the nar-\\nrow pale of one religious denomination, as is the case with\\nbigots of every persuasion. From persons of the latter class\\nwe expect no patronage. To encourage a Popish Bible\\nwould in their eyes be an heinous offence. But we fondly\\nhope, that there are few of this description here that\\npersons of the former character abound and that our sub-\\nscription list, by uniting together the names of members of\\nvarious and hitherto hostile denominations of Christians,\\nwill afford one proof among many that might be pro-\\nduced of the rapid advances that America has made in\\nthe divine principle of toleration.\\nWe are the public s devoted servants,\\nCarey, Stewabt Co.\\nPhiladelphia, Sept. 24, 1790.\\nTowards the close of the year in which this\\nappeal was issued the Douay Bible appeared;\\nthat is, December 1, 1790. The two volumes\\nwere bound in one. The type that was used\\nwas made especially for it, and was cast by the\\nfirm of Baine Co. of Philadelphia. The books\\nof third and fourth Maccabees, the third and\\nfourth of Esdras, and the Prayer of Manasses,\\nare omitted on the ground that they have\\nnever been received by the Church.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "72 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThe Title-Page\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE,\\nTEANSLATED FROM THE\\nLATIN VTTLGATE\\nDiligently compared with the\\nHEBBEW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS,\\nIn divers languages\\nAnd first published by\\nTHE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT DOWAT,i ANNO 1609.\\nNewly revised, and corrected according to\\nTHE CLEMENTINE EDITION OF THE SCRIPTURES.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2WITH ANNOTATIONS FOR ELUCIDATING\\nThe principal difficulties of Holy Writ.\\nHaurietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus Salvatoris. Isaiae\\nXII. 3.\\nPHILADELPHIA\\nPrinted and sold by Carey, Stewart and Co.\\nM.DCC.XC.\\nThe annotations are printed at the bottom of\\nthe pages. The list of subscribers is given, and\\n1 This word is usually spelled Douay, or Douai, but\\nthe above spelling occurs on the title-pages of early American\\nBibles.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST DOUAY VERSION. 73\\nextends from page 5 to 8. The New Testa-\\nment has no title-page. The end of the vol-\\nume is supplied with various tables; namely,\\nTable of References, Chronological Table,\\nOrder and Distribution of the Psalms, and a\\nTable of the Epistles and Gospels.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE.\\nThe first folio Bible and also the first royal\\nquarto Bible in English published in America\\ncame from the press of Isaiah Thomas of\\nWorcester, Mass. The history of this publisher\\nwas that of a poor boy, starting in life with few\\nadvantages and a scanty education, but, by\\ndint of industry, perseverance, and self-educa-\\ntion, advancing step by step until he became\\none of the foremost citizens of the land.\\nAt six years of age young Thomas was\\napprenticed to Zechariah Fowle, a printer of\\nBoston. The occupation was congenial to the\\nlad, and he followed his calling through many\\nyears with enthusiasm. At eighteen years of\\nage he left his employer, and worked at print-\\ning in Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, and South\\nCarolina. In 1770 he returned to Boston, and,\\n74", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 75\\nin partnership with his former master, started a\\nnewspaper known as The Massachusetts Spy.\\nThree months later he became the sole proprie-\\ntor of the paper, which he edited with ability\\nand success. From a humble beginning with a\\nfew subscribers it grew to the largest circulation\\nof any paper in Boston, and its influence was\\nknown and felt throughout the land. It had to\\ntake part in the conflict which was then raging\\nbetween Great Britain and the colonies. At\\nfirst it was independent; but later Thomas\\nthrew all his sympathies, energies, and influ-\\nence into the cause of the colonies. Just\\nbefore the battle of Lexington the type and\\npresses of The Spy were removed by night\\nfrom Boston and taken to Worcester. There\\nthe publication of the paper was resumed,\\nand the Provincial Government assisted Mr.\\nThomas by giving him the public printing.\\nWorcester became the scene of his greatest\\nactivities for he engaged in printing, publish-\\ning, manufacturing, and editing. Paper for his\\npublications was made in a mill that he oper-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "76 EARLY BIBLES.\\nated, and he also did his own binding. He\\nentered largely into the importation of books,\\nand at one time had nine book-stores in differ-\\nent cities.\\nIn 1786 he imported type for the printing of\\nmusic, which was the first font of this kind to\\ncome to America. He did an extensive busi-\\nness in Boston under the firm name of Thomas\\nAndrews. In 1791 Mr. Thomas published\\ntwo editions of the Bible at Worcester, the one\\nin folio and the other in royal quarto. A pros-\\npectus was sent out, detailing the advantages\\nto subscribers. The Bible was to be printed in\\nnew type, large, beautiful, and suited for the\\naccommodation of the eyes of all, especially\\nthose of the aged and infirm. It promised\\nthat the paper shall be fully equal in good-\\nness, if not a superior quality, to the various\\nEnglish editions.\\nThe subscription price is named as only\\nseven dollars. As an indication of the scar-\\ncity of money at that time, the following from\\nthe prospectus is interesting", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 11\\nTo make payment easy to those who wish to be en-\\ncouragers of this laudable undertaking, and to be in posses-\\nsion of so valuable property as a royal quarto Bible, and\\nwho are not able to pay for one all in cash, from such the\\npublisher will receive one-half of the sum, or twenty-one\\nshillings, in the following articles, viz., wheat, rye, Indian\\ncorn, butter, or pork, if delivered at his store in Worcester,\\nor at the store of himself and company in Boston, by the\\ntwentieth day of December, 1790, the remaining sum of\\ntwenty-one shillings to be paid in cash, as soon as the books\\nare ready for delivery. This proposal is made to accommo-\\ndate all, notwithstanding the sum of twenty-one shillings\\nwill by no means be the proportion of cash that each Bible\\nbound will cost the pxiblisher.\\nThe booksellers of the United States are in-\\nformed that, if they subscribe for twelve or\\nmore copies in sheets, they shall have them\\non full as generous terms as English publish-\\ners supply books to the trade. The reverend\\nclergy are also informed that all who sub-\\nscribe for twelve copies, or procure twelve\\ncopies to be subscribed for, and will be answer-\\nable, and make payment for them agreeably to\\nthis proposal, shall be entitled to, and receive a\\nthirteenth copy, handsomely bound, for their\\ntrouble.\\nThe two editions of the Thomas Bible", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "78 EARLY BIBLES.\\nappeared in December, 1791. The title-page\\nof the folio reads\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE,\\nCONTAINING THE\\nOLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:\\nwith the\\nAPOCRYPHA.\\nTBANSLATED\\nOUT OF THE OBIGINAL, TONGUES,\\nand\\nWITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY\\nCOMPARED AND REVISED,\\nBY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF KING JAMES I. OF\\nENGLAND.\\ntrith an\\nINDEX.\\nAPPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.\\nVOL. I.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nPRINTED AT THE PRESS IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,\\nBY ISAIAH THOMAS.\\nSOLD BY HIM IN WORCESTER; AND BY HIM AND COMPANY\\nAT FAUST s STATUE, NO. 45, NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON\\nM.DCC.XCI.\\nThe first and second pages are covered with\\nThe printer s Address, To Christians of Every", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 79\\nDenomination. The third and part of the\\nfourth pages, To the Publick, and Address\\nof the Translators to King James. Then fol-\\nlow Names and Order of Books. The text\\nextends from Genesis to end of Proverbs, from\\npage 5 to page 460, which closes the first vol-\\nume. The second begins with Ecclesiastes.\\nThe New Testament title-page reads\\nTHE NEW\\nTESTAMENT\\nof\\nOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR\\nJESUS CHRIST,\\nTRANSLATED\\nOUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK,\\nAND\\nWith the former Translations diligently compared and\\nrevised,\\nBY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF KING JAMES I. OF\\nENGLAND.\\nTogether with an\\nINDEX\\nto the\\nHOLY BIBLE.\\nAPPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "80 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThe second volume ends with Tables of\\nWeights, Measures, Coins, c., Tables of\\nTime, Offices, and Conditions, and Table of\\nKindred. The two volumes cover 1,012 pages\\nof printed matter. The Thomas Bible is illus-\\ntrated with fifty copper-plate engravings, which\\ndoubtless gave it additional value in the eyes of\\nmany. The frontispiece of the first volume\\nillustrates the Triumph of the Gospel through-\\nout the world. The frontispiece to the Apocry-\\npha is an emblematical representation of the\\nOld and New Dispensations. The fifty copper-\\nplates were executed by four artists and are\\nsigned. There are three woodcuts, one be-\\nfore the Book of Genesis, representing Adam and\\nEve a second before the Apocrypha, of Judith\\nand Holofernes and the third before the New\\nTestament, of the Crucifixion. This edition\\nwas usually bound in two volumes, though it is\\noccasionally seen in one.\\nThe general title-page of the royal quarto\\nBible is worded the same way as the folio, with\\nthe addition of these words", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 81\\nWITH\\nMAKGINAL NOTES AND EEFERENCES.\\nTo -which are added an\\nINDEX\\nand an\\nALPHABETICAL TABLE\\nOF ALL THE NAMES IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,\\nwith their significations.\\nIt differs in the body of the work from the\\nfolio in having parallel lines dividing the col-\\numns of the text. It lacks the three wood-cuts\\nfound in the other edition, and, as the title-\\npage indicates, has notes, references, and index.\\nSome copies were supplied with a Concordance.\\nAccording to the publisher s announcement, it\\ncould be supplied to subscribers in three forms.\\nThe first was with forty-eight copper-plates and\\nConcordance the second, without plates or Con-\\ncordance and the third, with the Concordance.\\nThe book was published in two volumes.\\nThe two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were with-\\nout doubt far in advance of any other publica-\\ntions of the same kind that had appeared in\\nAmerica in point of typography, excellence of", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "82 EARLY BIBLES.\\npaper, binding, and general execution. Benja-\\nmin Franklin, an expert in printing, paid a high\\ncompliment to Thomas when he said, He is\\nthe Baskerville of America.\\nThe Thomas Bible appeared fifteen years\\nafter the Declaration of Independence. What\\nthe publisher says in the preface, or Address,\\nof the prospects and hopes of the young Repub-\\nlic is worth reading. He writes,\\nThe general state of our country must afford satisfac-\\ntion to every benevolent mind. Evidences of increasing\\nprosperity present themselves on every side to our view.\\nAbroad, our national character is rising to dignity and emi-\\nnence; at home, confidence is established in our government,\\nthe spirit of patriotism appears to be the actuating principle\\nwith the distinguished characters of our age, and the great-\\nest exertions are making for the public good. The civil and\\nreligious rights of men are generally understood, and by all\\nenjoyed. The sciences which open to the minds of men a\\nview of the works and ways of God, and the arts which\\ntend to the support, the convenience, and the ornament of\\nsociety, begin to receive proper encouragement from the ad-\\nministration of state and national governments, and by the\\napplication and enterprise of individuals are approaching to\\nexcellence and perfection. The means of a good education\\nare daily becoming more general and the present spirit of\\nindustry and economy, which pervades all classes of men,\\nfurnishes the brightest prospects of future prosperity and\\nwelfare. While a general solicitude prevails to encourage\\nthe arts and to promote national honor, dignity, and happi-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 83\\nness, can any be indifferent to those improvements which,\\nare necessary to secure to all the free and independent exer-\\ncise of the Rights of Conscience? The civil authority hath\\nset an example of moderation and candor to all Christians,\\nby securing equal privileges to all; and it must be their ar-\\ndent and united wish, independently of foreign aid, to be\\nsupplied with copies of the Sacred Scriptures the founda-\\ntion of their religion a religion which furnishes motives\\nto the faithful performance of every patriotic, civil, and\\nsocial duty, superior to the temptations of ambition, avarice,\\nand selfishness; which opens prospects to the human mind\\nthat will be realized when the relation to civil govern-\\nment shall be dissolved, and which will raise its real disciples\\nto their highest glory and happiness when the monuments\\nof human genius, art, and enterprise shall be lost in the\\ngeneral dissolution of nature.\\nAn octavo edition of the Bible was published\\nby Mr. Thomas in 1790, and another in 1802.\\nThe duodecimo, or Thomas standing, edition\\nwas issued in 1797. On the title-page our coun-\\ntry is spoken of as The United States of\\nColumbia. The same book reappeared with\\nfresh dates in 1798 and 1799.\\nIn 1802 Mr. Thomas retired from active busi-\\nness and left his printing and publishing inter-\\nests in the hands of his son. The remainder\\nof his life was devoted mainly to literary pur-\\nsuits and to collecting a library. There was", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "84 EARLY BIBLES.\\npublished in 1810 his History of Printing in\\nAmerica, in two volumes. It is a carefully\\nprepared work, and preserves many interesting\\nfacts that marked the early history of this land.\\nIn 1812 he and a few others founded the\\nAmerican Antiquarian Society of Worcester.\\nHe was elected president, and continued to be\\nre-elected each year until his death. He donated\\neight thousand books to the library of the soci-\\nety, and gave ten thousand dollars to building\\na hall. His entire benefactions in this one\\ndirection reached fifty thousand dollars. As a\\nrecogiiition of his services to his country, and his\\nadvancement of literature, the degree of M.A.\\nwas conferred upon him by Dartmouth College\\nand that of LL.D. by Allegheny College. The\\nbiographer of the eminent publisher says that\\nwhen Washington visited Worcester in 1789\\nhe said to a nephew of Mr. Thomas Young\\nman, your uncle has set you a bright example\\nof patriotism and never forget that, next to our\\nGod, we owe our highest duty to our country.\\n1 B. F. Thomas s Memoir of Isaiah Thomas, p. 78.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE THOMAS BIBLE. 85\\nThe American Antiquarian Society, which was\\nthe object of so much interest to Dr. Thomas,\\nhas become one of the strongest institutions of\\nthe land. It has a new building with a library\\nof ninety thousand volumes. It contains the\\nnoted Mather collection, and other Americana.\\nThe Society has a full set of the Thomas\\npublications elegantly bound, and containing\\nthe library plate of the eminent editor and\\npublisher. Harvard University has a copy of\\nthe folio Bible, which was presented by the\\nprinter. It contains in front a printed slip\\nin an ornamented border, reading, This Book,\\nbeing one of the First edition of the Folio\\nBible printed in America, is the gift of the prin-\\nter, Isaiah Thomas, to Harvard College.\\nThe Thomas Bibles are not rare, and copies\\nare found in nearly all of our older libraries.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "THE COLLINS BIBLE.\\nThe first Bible printed in the State of New\\nJersey came from the press of Isaac Collins at\\nTrenton. He was born in New Castle County,\\nDel., in 1746. He learned the printing trade,\\npart of the time with James Adams of Wil-\\nmington, Del., and completed it at Williams-\\nburg, Va. When he was of age he went to\\nPhiladelphia and worked with several firms,\\nand was regarded as an expert and superior\\nworkman. He removed to Burlington, N. J.,\\nin 1770, when his business ability secured him\\nthe position of public printer. In 1777 he\\nbecame editor of a weekly paper known as\\nThe New Jersey Crazette. It was said of him\\nthat he carefully avoided publishing any-\\nthing which tended to injure the religious, civil,\\n86", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE COLLINS BIBLE. 87.\\nor political interests of his fellow-citizens.\\nLater he removed his business to Trenton,\\nwhere in 1788 he published an edition of the\\nNew Testament. He issued in 1789 proposals\\nfor publishing a quarto Bible with the Apoc-\\nrypha and marginal notes. The book was to\\nbe in one large volume of nine hundred and\\neighty-four pages. The price named to sub-\\nscribers was four Spanish dollars. As one\\nof the inducements, it was stated that Down-\\name s Concordance, which is annexed to Eyre\\nand Strahan s London quarto edition of 1772,\\nwill be added, without further expense to the\\nsubscribers.\\nMr. Collins presented his proposals to the\\nvarious bodies of Christians, and solicited their\\nencouragement and support. The first to take\\naction were the Friends. The minutes of a\\nmeeting held in Philadelphia in 1789 show that\\nthe proposed Bible was indorsed in these\\nwords\\nThis undertaking being a matter of very interesting\\nconcernment, and such an edition as therein proposed ap-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "88 EARLY BIBLES.\\npearing likely to be useful and much wanted, on a deliberate\\nand weighty attention to these considerations, it is the\\nunited sense of the meeting, that it be recommended to the\\nquarterly and monthly meetings of Friends to encourage\\nthe work, by appointing committees to procure subscriptions\\nagreeably to the tenor of said proposals, and forwarding to\\nthis meeting lists of the subscriptions obtained as early as\\nmay be, in order that a suitable appointment may be made\\nfor the assistance of the printer in attending to the correct-\\nness of the work.\\nMr. Collins was a member of the Society of\\nFriends. He received, says Thomas, much\\nassistance from the Quakers in printing the\\nBible, particularly from those in Philadelphia,\\nNew Jersey, and New York.\\nAt a meeting of the Presbyterian General\\nAssembly, held in Philadelphia, May 25, 1789,\\na resolution was passed that a person or per-\\nsons be appointed in every congregation, vacant\\nor supplied, to procure subscriptions for Col-\\nlins s Bible. Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D.,\\nand two others were appointed to help revise\\nand correct the proof-sheets. It was also\\nrecommended that Gstervald s Notes be\\nadded to the Bible.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE COLLINS BIBLE. 89\\nAt a meeting of the Baptist Association, held\\nin the same year and city, the proposals were\\nindorsed, but with a condition. The members\\nof the committee appointed to assist in correct-\\ning the proof-sheets were ordered to use their\\ninfluence to prevent the Apocrypha or any\\nnotes of any kind being printed and included\\nin said edition, as having a dangerous tendency\\nto corrupt the simplicity and truth of the\\nsacred Scriptures, by being thus intimately\\nassociated with them.\\nAt the Convention of the Protestant Episco-\\npal Church in May, 1789, held at Philadelphia,\\nit was resolved that the members of this Con-\\nvention will assist Mr. Collins in the procuring\\nof subscriptions.\\nThe work having received the requisite sup-\\nport, the Bible was issued from the Collins\\npress in Trenton in the year 1791. The edition\\nconsisted of five thousand copies.\\nThe title-page reads", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "90 EARLY BIBLES.\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE,\\nCONTAINING THE\\nOLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:\\nTRANSLATED OUT OF THE\\nORIGINAL TONGUES\\nand with the former translations\\nDILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.\\nTRENTON\\nPRINTED AND SOLD BY ISAAC COLLINS.\\nM.DCC.XCL\\nIn deference to the Baptists some copies\\nwere printed without the Apocrypha and\\nOstervald s Notes. An address to the\\nreaders by Rev. Dr. Witherspoon was substi-\\ntuted for the dedication to King James. The\\nBible was printed with great care, as the proof-\\nsheets were read over eleven times before the\\nfinal impression was made. In 1793 Mr. Col-\\nlins printed a Bible in octavo. He removed his\\nbusiness in 1796 to New York City.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST TRANSLATION FROM THE\\nSEPTUAGINT.\\nIn the year 1808, the press of Jane Aitken of\\nPhiladelphia gave to the world a version of the\\nBible that indicated a high order of scholarship.\\nIt came from the pen of Charles Thomson, and\\nwas the first translation in America of the\\nSeptuagint into English. It was issued in four\\noctavo volumes. Watson, in his Annals of\\nPhiladelphia, says of Thomson He told me\\nthat he was first induced to study Greek from\\nhaving bought a part of the Septuagint at an\\nauction in this city. He had bought it for a\\nmere trifle, and without knowing what it was,\\nsave that the crier said it was outlandish letters.\\nWhen he had mastered it enough to understand\\nit, his anxiety became great to see the whole\\nbut he could find no copy. Strange to tell, in\\nthe interval of two years, passing the same store,\\n1 Watson s Annals of Philadelphia, 1850, vol. i., p. 568.\\n91", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "92 EARLY BIBLES.\\nand chancing to look in, lie then saw the re-\\nmainder actually crying off for a few pence, and\\nhe bought it. I used to tell him that the trans-\\nlation which he afterwards made should have\\nhad these facts set at the front of the work as a\\npreface for that great work, the first of the\\nkind in the English language, strangely enough,\\nwas ushered into the world without any preface.\\nThe title-page reads\\nTHE\\nHOLY BIBLE,\\nCONTAINING\\nTHE OLD AND NEW COVENANT,\\ncommonly called\\nThe Old and New Testament:\\ntranslated\\nfeom the greek\\nBY CHAELES THOMSON,\\nLate Secretary to the Congress of the United States.\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nFEINTED BY JANE AITKEN,\\nNO. 71 NORTH THIRD 8TBEET.\\n1808.\\n4 vols.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "TRANSLATION FROM SEPTUAGINT. 93\\nThis version received the enthusiastic ap-\\nproval of scholars at the time it was published,\\nand has continued to be valued for its vigor and\\nperspicuity. Orme speaks of it in commendable\\nterms in his Bibliotheca Bibliac of 1824, and\\nHome follows in like terms in his Manual\\nof Biblical Bibliography, published in 1839.\\nAs the years have gone by Thomson s transla-\\ntion has not lost its place in the minds of criti-\\ncal Biblical students. As one evidence of this,\\nit need only be stated that it was consulted\\nby the Revision Committee in their version of\\n1881.\\nCharles Thomson was born at Maghera, Ire-\\nland, on Nov. 29, 1729. He and his father\\nsailed for America in 1741, but the father died\\nat sea, and the son landed at New Castle, Dela-\\nware. In the war with Great Britain, Thom-\\nson gave his sympathy and influence to the\\nside of the colonies. At the organization of the\\nContinental Congress at Philadelphia, in 1774,\\nThomson was elected Secretary by a unaminous\\nvote. He declined to receive pay for his first", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "94 EARLY BIBLES.\\nyear of service to Congress, and that body, in\\nrecognition of his patriotism, presented a silver\\nurn to his wife, who was a sister of Benjamin\\nHarrison of Virginia, one of the signers of the\\nDeclaration of Independence. Thomson filled\\nother positions of honor and responsibility, and\\nwas appointed to announce to Washington his\\nelection as President of the United States.\\nEach year Thomson was re-elected as Secretary,\\nup to 1789, when he retired for the purpose\\nof devoting himself to Biblical study. Such\\ncases are rare, of men giving up honorable pub-\\nlic positions for the sake of mental pursuits.\\nHis retirement was regretted by Washington and\\nhis associates. Thomson was greatly esteemed\\nfor his nobility of character, and especially for\\nhis veracity. The Delaware Indians, with whom\\nhe was commissioned to treat, called him The\\nMan of Truth. He died in 1824, at Lower\\nMerion, Montgomery County, Penn. His resi-\\ndence for many years was at Bryn Mawr, in the\\nsame State. His house is still standing, and the\\nroom is shown which was used as his library", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "TRANSLATION FROM SEPTUAGINT 95\\nwhen he wrote his translation of the Bible.\\nThe original manuscript is in the possession of\\nAllegheny College, and three note-books in\\nThomson s handwriting, containing suggestions\\nand alterations concerning his translations, are\\nin the library of the Pennsylvania Historical\\nSociety. His own copy of the Bible, with the\\nmanuscript notes in the margins, is the prop-\\nerty of the Library Company of Philadelphia.\\nThe strong translation that Thomson gave us\\nwas the result of long years of patient investi-\\ngation, persistent study, and an intense love for\\nhis work.\\nMr. Albert J. Edwards says, Thomson s trans-\\nlation is notable for its sound erudition and\\nscholarly care, but also for its singular freedom\\nfrom traditional renderings. Wherever it was\\npossible to translate a theological term with\\nbreadth and freshness it was done, but only\\nwhere an honest latitude was allowed by the\\noriginal. He also adds, It seems to me that\\na version of such sterling worth ought not to be\\nleft languishing on the shelves of old book-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "96 EARLY BIBLES.\\nstores, to be bought as a bibliographical curi-\\nosity, as it now has too long been, but should\\nbe taken up by a good publisher and re-edited\\nwith care. Neither Roman nor Genevan,\\nneither High Church nor Low, of no sect and\\nof no prejudice, whether of unbelief or of over-\\nbelief, this American patriot of the Continental\\nCongress, who lived to be ninety-four and\\nspent a glorious old age in his home near Bryn\\nMawr, translating the records of our faith,\\nought to stand among us once more in the form\\nof a newer and more accessible edition of his\\ngreat work, the Old and New Covenants.\\nIn 1815 Mr. Thomson published at Philadel-\\nphia a work bearing the title of A Synopsis\\nof the Four Evangelists, or a Regular History\\nof the Conception, Birth, Doctrine, Miracles,\\nDeath, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus\\nChrist in the Words of the Evangelists. Wil-\\nliam McCullogh was the printer.\\n1 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Octo-\\nber number, 1891, p. 335.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST TRANSLATION FROM THE\\nPESHITO SYRIAC VERSION.\\nAmong the oldest versions of the Old and\\nNew Testaments is the Peshito Syriac, the word\\nPeshito meaning simple, probably in refer-\\nence to its simplicity of style. There is no\\ndoubt concerning the antiquity of this version,\\nbut there is a wide range of opinion as to its\\nexact date. Home, in his Introduction, says,\\nBishop Walton, Carpzov, Leusden, Bishop\\nLowth, and Dr. Kennicott fix its date to the\\nfirst century Bauer and some other German\\nwriters, to the second or third century; Jahn\\nfixes it, at the least, to the second century De\\nRossi pronounces it to be very ancient, but does\\nnot specify any precise date. The most prob-\\nable opinion is that of Michaelis, who ascribes\\n97", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "98 EARLY BIBLES.\\nthe Syriac version of both Testaments to the\\nclose of the first, or to the earlier part of\\nthe second century, at which time the Syrian\\nchurches flourished most, and the Christians\\nat Edessa had a temple for divine worship\\nerected after the model of that at Jerusalem,\\nand it is not to be supposed that they would be\\nwithout a version of the Old Testament, the\\nreading of which had been introduced by the\\nApostles.\\nWhile the date has not been fixed, it can be said\\nthat the Peshito was an old version even in the\\ntime of Ephraim the Syrian, who died in 373. Of\\nthe authorship of the version nothing is known,\\nthough it is evident that it came from many\\nhands. From certain resemblances to the Sep-\\ntuagint, it is thought that Jewish converts had\\nmuch to do with this version. Of the place where\\nit was written nothing can be said definitely,\\nthough it has been conjectured that it may have\\nbeen written at Antioch or Edessa. The ver-\\nsions known as the Philoxenian and Hierosoly-\\n1 Home s Introduction, vol. i., p. 270.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "PESHITO SYRIA C VERSION. 99\\nmitian are of later date and of little value com-\\npared with the Peshito New Testament. The\\nlatter holds a high place among scholars, as it\\nhelps to clear up some passages of the Greek\\nTestament.\\nThe first edition of the Peshito New Testa-\\nment was printed in Vienna in 1555, under the\\npatronage of the Emperor of Austria, and was\\ndesigned for the use of the Jacobite Christians\\nof the East. In later years other editions were\\nprinted in Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, and\\nEngland. In some cases the Testaments were\\nprinted in Syriac and Latin, or in Syriac and\\nHebrew. In 1816 the British and Foreign\\nBible Society published an edition in the Syriac\\nalone, which was intended for missionary use in\\nIndia.\\nThe first translation in Great Britain, of the\\nPeshito New Testament into English, was made\\nin 1846, by J. W. Etheridge, who published\\nthe Four Gospels. The first translation of the\\nPeshito New Testament in the United States\\ncame from the pen of the Rev. James Murdock,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "100 EARLY BIBLES.\\nD.D., in 1851. The title-page of the book is as\\nfollows\\nTHE\\nNEW TESTAMENT\\nOK,\\nTHE BOOK OF THE HOLY GOSPEL\\nOF OUR LORD AND OUR GOD,\\nJESUS THE MESSIAH.\\nA LITERAL TRANSLATION FROM THE SYRIAC PESHITO\\nVERSION.\\nBY JAMES MUKDOCK, D.D.\\nNEW YORK\\nPUBLISHED BY STANFORD AND SWORDS,\\nNO. 137 BROADWAY.\\n1851.\\nDr. Murdock says in the Preface In this\\ntranslation the Books of the New Testament are\\ndivided into Paragraphs, according to the sense\\njust as in Campbell s translation of the Four Gos-\\npels, and in the Greek Testaments of Bengel,\\nGriesbach, Knapp, and others. The common\\ndivisions into Chapters and Verses are noted\\nin the margin, and the Verses are also put in\\nparentheses in the middle of the lines. For the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "PESHITO SYRIAC VERSION. 101\\nbenefit of those who have some knowledge of the\\nSyriac language, the more important words are\\nfrequently placed in the side margin, with refer-\\nences to the corresponding words in the transla-\\ntion. Deviations of the Syriac text from the\\nGreek, and also the susceptibilities of the Syriac\\nwords, or phrases, of a different rendering from\\nthat in the text, are likewise indicated in the side\\nmargin. The foot margin is reserved for occa-\\nsional comments and critical observations.\\nThe book is an octavo, and the text covers 471\\npages. The author tells us he commenced his\\ntranslation early in August, 1845, and completed\\nit on the 16th of June, 1846.\\nDr. Murdock was born in Westbrook, Conn.,\\nFeb. 16, 1776. He was graduated at Yale Col-\\nlege in 1797. In 1815 he was made Professor\\nof Ancient Languages in the University of Ver-\\nmont, and four years later was called to the\\nchair of Sacred Rhetoric and Ecclesiastical His-\\ntory in Andover Theological Seminary. In 1829\\nhe made New Haven his home, and engaged in\\nliterary work. He died at Columbus, Miss., in", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "102 EARLY BIBLES.\\n1856. He translated a n-umber of works from\\nthe German, and was well known as a linguistic\\nscholar. His translation of the Peshito New\\nTestament is considered a faithful rendering\\nfrom the Syriac.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CURIOUS VERSIONS.\\nThe crank has invaded every department of\\nliterature, and has even tried his hand at the\\nBiblical. Men of strong prejudices, narrow- or\\nbroad-gauge views, and possessed with a hobby,\\nhave sought to color Scripture according to\\ntheir own opinions, and with little deference to\\nthe original sense of the languages of Holy\\nWrit. Some scholars who have been strong in\\nother directions, have exhibited their weakness\\nwhen dealing with the words of Inspiration.\\nAs a result, they have brought upon themselves\\nconfusion and ridicule. Franklin was in many\\nways a great man, but he published his own\\nfoolishness when he attempted to improve the\\nmeaning of the Bible. Among his Baga-\\ntelles, which Mr. William Temple Franklin\\n103", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "104\\nEARLY BIBLES.\\nsays were chiefly written by Dr. Franklin for\\nthe amusement of his intimate society in Lon-\\ndon and Paris, and were actually collected in a\\nsmall portfolio endorsed as above, appears the\\nfollowing letter\\nPROPOSED NEW VERSION OF THE BIBLE.\\nTo the Printer of\\nSir, It is now more than one hundred and seventy\\nyears since the translation of our common English Bible.\\nThe language in that time is much changed, and the style,\\nbeing obsolete, and thence less agreeable, is perhaps one\\nreason why the reading of that excellent book is of late so\\nmuch neglected. I have therefore thought it would be well\\nto procure a new version, in which, preserving the sense,\\nthe turn of phrase and manner of expression should be\\nmodern. I do not pretend to have the necessary abilities\\nfor such a work myself I throw out the hint for the con-\\nsideration of the learned and only venture to send you a\\nfew verses of the first chapter of Job, which may serve as\\nthe sample of the kind of version I would recommend.\\nA. B.\\nOld Text.\\nVerse 6. Now there was a day\\nwhen the sons of God came to pre-\\nsent themselves before the Lord,\\nand Satan came also among them.\\nNew Version.\\nVerse 6. And it being levee\\nday in Heaven, all God s nobility\\ncame to court to present them-\\nselves before htm; and Satan also\\nappeared in the circle as one of\\nthe ministry.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CURIOUS VERSIONS.\\n105\\nOld Text.\\n7. And the Lord said unto\\nSatan, Whence comest thou?\\nThen Satan answered the Lord\\nand said, From going to and fro\\nin the earth, and from walking up\\nand down in it.\\n8. And the Lord said unto\\nSatan, Hast thou considered my\\nservant Job, that there is none\\nlike him in the earth, a perfect\\nand an upright man, one thatfear-\\neth God and escheweth evil?\\n9. Then Satan answered the\\nLord, and said, Doth Job fear God\\nfor nought?\\n10. Hast not thou made an\\nhedge about him, and about his\\nhouse, and about all that he hath\\non every side? Thou hast blessed\\nthe work of his hands, and his\\nsubstance is increased in the land.\\n11. But put forth thine hand\\nnow, and touch all that he hath,\\nand he will curse thee to thy face.\\nNew Version.\\n7. And God said unto Satan,\\nYou have been some time absent;\\nwhere were you? And Satan an-\\nswered, I have been at my country\\nseat, and in different places visit-\\ning my friends.\\n8. And God said, Well, what\\nthink you of Lord Job? You see\\nhe is my best friend, a perfectly\\nhonest man, fuU of respect for\\nme, and avoiding everything that\\nmight offend me.\\n9. And Satan answered. Does\\nyour majesty imagine that his\\ngood conduct is the effect of per-\\nsonal attachment and affection?\\n10. Have you not protected\\nhim and heaped your benefits\\nupon him, till he is grown enor-\\nmously rich?\\n11. Try him; only withdraw\\nyour favor, turn him out of his\\nplaces, and withhold his pensions,\\nand you wiU soon find him in the\\nopposition.\\nMr. McMasters, in his recent life of Franklin\\nas a man of letters, says,^\\nIn uo book, it is safe to say, are the force and beauty of\\nthe English tongue so finely shown as in King James s\\nBible. But on Franklin that force and beauty were wholly\\nlost. The language he pronounced obsolete. The style he\\nthought not agreeable, and he was for a new rendering, in\\n1 McMasters, Benjamin Franklin American Men of Letters\\nSeries, pp. 87, 88.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "106 EARLY BIBLES.\\nwhich the turn of phrase and manner of expression should\\nbe modern. That there might be no mistake as to his\\nmeaning, he gave a sample of how the work should be done;\\ntook some verses from the first chapter of Job, stripped\\nthem of every particle of grace, beauty, imagery, terseness,\\nand strength, and wrote a paraphrase, which of all para-\\nphrases of the Bible is surely the worst.\\nThe plan is beneath criticism. Were such a piece of\\nfolly ever begun there would remain but one other depth\\nof folly to which it would be possible to go down. Franklin\\nproposed to fit out the Kingdom of Heaven with lords,\\nnobles, a ministry, and levee days. It would, on the same\\nprinciple, be proper to make another version suitable for\\nrepublics; a version from which every term and expression\\npeculiar to a monarchy should be carefully kept out, and\\nonly such as are applicable to a republic be put in.\\nIn 1776 Kneeland Adams of Boston\\nprinted a translation of the Gospel of St. Mat-\\nthew, made by the Rev. Samuel Mather, in\\nwhich the Lord s Prayer has this curious\\nrendering\\nOur Father, who art in the Heavens, sanctified be Thy\\nXame Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, as in Heaven,\\nso upon the Earth Give us to-day that our bread, the super-\\nsubstantial and forgive us our debts, as we forgive them\\nwho are our debtors; and introduce us not into afflictive\\ntrial, but deliver us from the Wicked One, because thine is\\nthe Kingdom, and the power, and the glory for the ages.\\nAmen.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "CURIOUS VERSIONS. 107\\nLilly, Wait, Coleman, Holden of Boston\\nprinted in 1833 what claimed to be A New\\nand Corrected Version of the New Testament.\\nIt was edited by Rev. Rodolphus Dickinson,\\nRector of St. Paul s Parish, District of Pendle-\\nton, South Carolina. The American Monthly\\nReview for March, 1833, says, Apart from\\nits literary execution, this professed translation\\nhas no distinctive character; and as the author\\nin his preface places his chief reliance on\\nthe rhetorical embellishments with which he has\\nadorned the sacred text, we are constrained to\\naward a verdict of unqualified condemnation.\\nThe reckless and freehanded nature of the\\ntranslation may be judged by the quotations\\nthat follow\\nJohn iil. 3. Except a man be reproduced, he cannot\\nrealize the reign of God.\\n4. Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be pro-\\nduced when he is matured Can he again pass into a state\\nof embryo and be produced\\nActs i. 18. And (Judas) falling prostrate, a violent\\ninternal spasm ensued, and all his viscera were emitted.\\nxxvi. 24. Festus declared with a loud voice, Paul, you\\nare insane Multiplied research drives you to distraction.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "108 EARLY BIBLES.\\nIn 1852 Henry Olipliant, of Auburn, New\\nYork, printed a portion of the New Testament\\nfor Hezekiah Woodruff, who desired to render\\nthe words of Scripture after the language of\\nour day. Here are a few examples of his\\nefforts, with the original spellings\\nSt. Matthew iii. 4. His food was small animals aud\\nvegitable honey.\\n6. Happy are they who hunger and thirst for correct-\\nness.\\n20. Unless your correctness should exceed the correct-\\nness of the clergy.\\nxxvi. 24. The Son-of-man maketh his exit.\\n49. Immediately he [Judas] came to the Saviour and\\nsaid, Your most obedient, Preceptor.\\nIt is a relief to know that this book ended\\nwith the Gospel of St. Matthew.\\nAt various times editions of the New Testa-\\nment have appeared which were translated in\\nthe interests of certain sectarian bodies. In\\n1849 Joshua V. Himes of Boston published a\\nMillerite New Testament. In 1850 a New\\nTestament was printed by a New York firm, in\\nwhich these words were placed upon the title-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "CURIOUS VERSIONS. 109\\npage, Dictated by the Spirit. The editor\\nwas a Spiritualist.\\nA version of the New Testament was printed\\nin Boston by Thomas D. Wait Co., in 1809,\\nto advance the views of Socinianism. The\\ntitle-page contains this remarkable specimen of\\nthe English language No offence can justly be\\ntaken for this new labor nothing prejudicing\\nany other man s judgment by this doing nor\\nyet professing this so absolute a translation, as\\nthat hereafter might follow no other who might\\nsee that which as yet was not understood.\\nThe title-pages of some early American Bibles\\ncontain curious expressions. What were known\\nas Hieroglyphical Bibles were common in\\nthose days. On the title-pages of several editions\\nare these words, For the instruction and amuse-\\nment of children. John C. Ricker of New\\nYork printed in 1833 an edition of the New\\nTestament containing this line on the title-page,\\nWith numerous engravings, and the sterling\\ncurrency reduced to dollars and cents.\\nThe editor of a Bible printed in Philadelphia", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "110 EARLY BIBLES.\\nin 1825 speaks on the title-page of the work,\\nliberally supplied with notes, as A Complete\\nLibrary of Divinity.\\nSerious errors in the printing of American\\nBibles are not very numerous, considering the\\nlarge editions of the Scriptures that have been\\nissued. There is a curious mistake in Eliot s\\nIndian Bible in the account of the ten virgins.\\nDr. Trumbull says, Among the Indians chas-\\ntity was a masculine virtue, and Eliot s Natick\\ninterpreter did not understand that the noun\\nwanted was feminine. Subsequent instruction\\ndoubtless made the matter clear, but in the\\nIndian Bible the parable in Matthew xxv. 1-12 is\\nof the ten chaste young men (piukqussuogpen-\\nompaog, the syllable omp marking the mascu-\\nline gender), and so in every place in which\\nvirgin occurs in the English version, though\\nin most cases the context clearly establishes the\\ntrue gender. The right word was keegsquau,\\nwhich is to be found (though seldom used) in\\nevery Algonkin language.\\nAn edition of the New Testament published", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CURIOUS VERSIONS. Ill\\nat Utica, N.Y., in 1829, rendered James v. 17,\\nElias was a man possible like unto us.\\nA Bible published at Hartford in 1837 printed\\n2 Timothy iii. 16 in this way, All Scripture is\\ngiven by inspiration of God, and is profitable\\nfor doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for\\ndestruction in righteousness.\\nAn edition of the Bible printed by the Ameri-\\ncan Bible Society in 1855 has this reading of St.\\nMark v. 3, Who had his dwelling among the\\nlambs, in place of tombs.\\nIn one of the early editions of the Bible\\nprinted by Harding of Philadelphia a singular\\nmistake was made in 1 Kings i. 21, where the\\nwords the king shall f sleep with his fathers,\\nwas rendered in print, the king shall dagger\\nsleep with his fathers. This is certainly the\\nmost literal following of copy on record.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "EARLY EDITIONS OF THE GREEK\\nTESTAMENT.\\nThe first edition of the New Testament in\\nGreek, published in the United States, came from\\nthe press of Isaiah Thomas, Jr., at Worcester,\\nMass., in the year 1800. It is in size a 12mo and\\nbound in calf. It contains on the second page a\\nchronological list of the books of the New Tes-\\ntament, and at the end this note The above\\nTable has been carefully and faithfully collected\\nfrom the writings of the famous Rev. Nathaniel\\nLardner, D.D. This note is followed by the\\nname of Caleb Alexander as editor. Al-\\nthough the title-page states that the book fol-\\nlows the reading of Mill, it is apparent that the\\neditor draws freely from other editions, and\\nespecially the Elzevir text of 1678.\\nAn edition of the New Testament in Greek\\nand Latin arranged in parallel columns appeared\\n112", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "H K AIM M\\nNOV U\\nTESTAMENTUM.\\nJUXTA EXEMPLAR JOANNIS MILLIl AC^\\nCURATISSIME IMPRESSUM,\\nEDJTIO PRIMA AUmiCAm,\\nWIGORNI^il, Massachvsettenji\\nExciidebat ISAIAS THOMAS, Ju\\nFac-simile of the title page of the first Greek Testament printed in America.\\nExact size.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "EDITIONS OF GREEK TESTAMENT. 113\\nin Philadelphia in 1806. It was edited by\\nJohn Watts, and printed by S. F. Bradford.\\nAnother edition by the same printer was issued\\nunder like date, wholly in Greek.\\nTwo volumes of the Greek Testament in\\noctavo, covering in all 890 pages, were pub-\\nlished in 1809, at Cambridge, dedicated to the\\nPresident and Fellows of Harvard College.\\nThe text is after Griesbach, though a selection\\nis given of various readings. There are also\\nobservations by W. Wells and W. Hilliard.\\nIsaiah Thomas, Jr., issued another edition of\\nthe Greek Testament in 1814, but the place of\\nprinting was Boston, not Worcester.\\nThe title-page differed from that of 1800 in\\nthe central ornament, which consists of two\\nreclining figures supporting an open Bible, with\\na Greek motto from 1 Cor. xv. 22. The text\\nis the same as in the first edition.\\nGeorge Long, 71 Pearl Street, New York,\\npublished in 1821 a 12mo New Testament in\\nGreek which followed the rendering of Leus-\\nden, covering 699 pages.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "114 EARLY BIBLES.\\nRev. Abner Kneeland, a Universalist minister,\\nedited the New Testament in Greek and Eng-\\nlish in 1822, William Fry of Philadelphia being\\nthe printer. In the same year the Testament\\nsolely in Greek was issued by the same editor.\\nKneeland went through varied experiences in\\nhis religious opinions. Beginning as a Baptist\\nminister, he then became a Universalist, and\\nended as a Deist. While editor of the Investi-\\ngator he was tried by the Supreme Court of\\nMassachusetts for blasphemy.\\nIn 1822 Oliver D. Cooke Sons of Hart-\\nford, Conn., published a 12mo Greek Testament\\nwhich was edited by Dr. P. Wilson of Columbia\\nCollege, other issues appearing in 1825, 1827,\\nand 1829. After this date various editions of\\nWilson s Testament were published in Phila-\\ndelphia for a number of years.\\nIn 1837 an important and since widely known\\nedition of the Greek Testament in two volumes\\nwas issued in the United States, with the im-\\nprint of the following publishers Boston\\nPerkins Marvin; Philadelphia: Henry Per-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "EDITIONS OF GREEK TESTAMENT. 115\\nkins. 1837. This Testament was edited by\\nRev. Dr. Bloomfield, and is a reprint of tlie\\nsecond London edition. The scope and scholar-\\nship of the work are indicated by the title-page,\\nwhere it is stated that the book contains Eng-\\nlish notes, critical, philological, and exegetical,\\npartly selected and arranged from the best com-\\nmentators, ancient and modern, but chiefly ori-\\nginal. The whole being specially adapted to\\nthe use of academical students, candidates for\\nthe sacred office, and Ministers, though also\\nintended as a manual edition for the use of\\ntheological readers in general. In the preface\\nDr. Bloomfield says, The text has been formed\\nafter long and repeated examinations of the\\nwhole of the New Testament for that purpose\\nsolely, on the basis of the last edition of R.\\nStephens, adopted by Mill, whose text differs\\nvery slightly from, but is admitted to be prefer-\\nable to, the common text, which originated in\\nthe Elzevir edition of 1624. From this there\\nhas been no deviation, except on the most\\npreponderating evidence, critical conjecture", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "116 EARLY BIBLES.\\nbeing wholly excluded, and sucli alterations\\nonly introduced as rest on the united authority\\nof MSS., ancient versions and Fathers, and the\\nearly printed editions, but especially upon the\\ninvaluable Editio Princeps and which had\\nbeen already adopted in one or more of the\\ncritical editions of Bengel, Wetstein, Gries-\\nbach, Matthoei, and Scholz. The American\\nedition of Dr. Bloomfield s work also contains\\na preface by Professor Stuart of Andover\\nTheological Seminary, dated Oct. 1, 1836.\\nThe two volumes include 1261 pages of printed\\nmatter.\\nThis book went through many editions, some\\nclaiming as high as fourteen, but was finally\\nsuperseded by other and better texts, especially\\nthose of Ellicott and Alford.\\nIn 1838 an American reprint of the Poly-\\nmicrian Greek Testament was issued in Phila-\\ndelphia by Henry Perkins, Joseph P. Engles,\\nA.M., being the editor. On one of the first\\npages of this book the words The New Testa-\\nment are printed in forty-eight different Ian-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "EDITIONS OF GREEK TESTAMENT. 117\\nguages, and on another page is the significant\\nline, Earth speaks with many tongues,\\nHeaven knows but one. The honored and\\nsaintly Dr. W. A. Muhlenberg has said that\\nhe owed to Engles, the editor of this work,\\nmore of his success in life than to any other\\nman. The Polymicrian Greek Testament was\\nfirst published in England in 1829, with a\\nlexicon prepared by William Greenfield. This\\nlexicon was published in America in the year\\n1839, revised by Engles, and after that date was\\nusually bound with the American reprint of the\\nPolymicrian. Its editor, William Greenfield,\\nbegan his business life in a bindery, and early\\ndisplayed a marvellous aptitude for the acquisi-\\ntion of languages. His attainments were so\\ngreat that he was employed by the British and\\nForeign Bible Society in editing the books they\\npublished in many tongues. Mr. Greenfield\\nalso edited Bagster s Comprehensive Bible,\\nwhich was printed in England in 1827, and\\nreprinted in Philadelphia in 1854, his brilliant\\ncareer being cut short by death at the age of\\nthirty-two.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "118 EARLY BIBLES.\\nIn 1842 Dr. Edward Robinson edited a Greek\\nTestament in which he follows the text and\\nannotations of Professor Hahn. The book is\\na 12mo, issued by Leavitt Trow, New York,\\nother editions appearing in 1845.\\nIn later years many editions of the Greek\\nTestament have been issued by leading publish-\\ners in the United States, but it does not fall\\nwithin the province of this book to speak of\\nthese recent volumes. Suffice it to say, that\\nfifty-two editions of the whole New Testament\\nin Greek were printed during the first half of\\nthis century, some in Greek alone, some in\\nboth Greek and English, or Greek and Latin,\\nbesides several editions of parts of the New\\nTestament. The first copy of the New Testa-\\nment in modern Greek, printed in America,\\nwas published by the American Bible Society\\nin 1833.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS.\\nThe first proposal to print the Bible in\\nEnglish in America was made in 1688 by\\nWilliam Bradford of Philadelphia. The pub-\\nlication that announced this intention was\\nworded as follows\\nThese are to give Notice, that it is proposed for a large\\nhouse-Bible to be Printed by way of Subscriptions, [a\\nmethod usual in England for the Printing of large Volumns,\\nbecause Printing is very chargeable] therefore to all that are\\nwilling to forward so good (and great) a Work, as the\\nPrinting of the holy Bible, are offered these Proposals, viz.\\n1. That It shall be printed in a fair Character, on good Paper,\\nand well bound. 2. That it shall contain the Old and New\\nTestament, with the Apocraphy, and all to have laseful\\nMarginal Notes. 3. That it shall be allowed (to them that\\nsubscribe) for Twenty Shillings per Bible [A Price which\\none of the same volumn in England would cost]. 4. That\\nthe pay shall be half Silver Money, and half Country Pro-\\nduce at Money price. One half down now, and the other\\nhalf on the delivery of the Bibles. Also, this may further\\ngive notice that Samuell Richardson and Samuell Carpenter\\n119", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "120 EARLY BIBLES.\\nof Philadelphia, are appointed to take care and be assistant\\nin the laying out of the Subscription Money, and to see that\\nit be imploy d to the use intended, and consequently\\nthat the whole Work be expedited. Which is promised by\\nWilliam Bradford.\\nPhiladelphia, the 14th of\\nthe 1st Month, 1688.\\nAlthough this early effort began and ended\\nwith the Proposal, Philadelphia has been for\\nmany years a centre of activity and enterprise\\nin the publication of many important editions\\nof the Bible.\\nAfter great persistence, Robert Aitken suc-\\nceeded in publishing his Bible of 1782, the\\nfirst bearing an American imprint. After his\\ndeath in 1802, his business was continued by\\nhis daughter, Jane Aitken, who seems to have\\ninherited the energy of her father. She sus-\\ntained the printing art through a number of\\nyears, and with acknowledged success. Thomas\\nsays, She obtained much reputation by the\\nproductions which issued from her press.\\nOne of the most familiar names seen upon\\nthe title-pages of Philadelphia Bibles is that of", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 121\\nMatthew Carey. He published not only editions\\nof the Bible after the Latin Vulgate, but many\\nquarto and duodecimo Bibles according to the\\nKing James translation. In the early days of\\nhis publishing career his work was attended\\nwith numerous risks and responsibilities. In\\nthe Preface to his Bible of 1801, he says\\nI present this edition of the Bible to the public, with a\\ndegree of solicitude proportioned to the magnitude of the\\nundertaking. Having embarked therein a large property,\\nand devoted my utmost care and attention to it, from its\\ncommencement to its completion, I find it impossible to\\nassume that degree of stoicism necessary to regard with\\nindifference its reception by my fellow-citizens.\\nAs the years rolled on his business prospered,\\nand ultimately assumed extensive proportions.\\nBible after Bible issued from his presses, and\\nmany of the editions were embellished with\\nengravings executed in the best style of the\\nday.\\nAnother name well known in the same locality\\nwas that of William Young. His first Bible\\nwas published in 1790 and was a 12mo in size.\\nIt was advertised as a school edition, and the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "122 EARLY BIBLES.\\nprice was named as five-eighths of a dollar.\\nIt had this imprint Printed by W. Young,\\nBookseller and Stationer, the corner of Second\\nand Chestnut Streets. He published another\\nedition of the Bible in 1791, and a tljird in 1792.\\nCopies of the New Testament appeared from his\\npress in 1791, 1792, 1802, and 1808.\\nBerriman Co. were early publishers in\\nPhiladelphia. They issued a folio Bible in\\n1796. It was supplied with marginal references,\\nand had a list of subscribers. It contained eigh-\\nteen engravings. Some time later they pub-\\nlished another folio, but no date was placed\\nupon the title-page. The later book was with-\\nout engravings.\\nThe first hot-pressed edition of the Bible in\\nAmerica was published in 1798. It contained\\na patriotic device on the title-page, in which\\nthe Bible is encircled with fifteen stars, and\\nsupported by the American eagle. The imprint\\nis as follows Printed for John Thompson and\\nAbraham Small, from the Hot-press of John\\nThompson. This Bible follows the text of", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 123\\nthe Cambridge edition of Baskerville. The\\nbook was published by subscription, and went\\nthrough forty numbers before it was completed.\\nIt contained the Apocrypha, which is printed\\nthroughout in italics. The price to sub-\\nscribers, counting each number at fifty cents,\\nwas twenty dollars. The book in size is a\\nfolio.\\nKimber, Conrad Co. 93 Market Street,\\nlater Kimber Sharpless, were extensive pub-\\nlishers of Bibles. Their first Bible was printed\\nin 1807, and was liberally supplied with Canne s\\nnotes. In 1823 a quarto Bible was published,\\nwhich they continued to reissue for twenty-one\\nyears, when the plates were sold to Jasper\\nHarding. Their first edition of the Bible in\\nGerman appeared in 1827, and its publication\\nwas continued through nearly a quarter of a\\ncentury.\\nSolomon Wiatt, 368 North Second Street,\\npublished in 1809 a 12mo New Testament,\\nwhich was paid for by the gift of $1,000 left\\nin the will of Mr. John Hancock of Burlington,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "12 J: EARLY BIBLES.\\nNew Jersey. The book was designed for free\\ndistribution among the poor.\\nThe first Hebrew Bible published in the\\nUnited States came from the press of Thomas\\nDobson of Philadelphia in 1814.\\nEugene Cummiskey, in the same city, was a\\ndiligent publisher of editions of the Bible trans-\\nlated from the Latin Vulgate. His first publica-\\ntion was a Bible in folio in 1825. It was well\\nprinted and illustrated, and commanded a high\\nprice. In the same year he published a Bible\\nin quarto. He was in business for over thirty\\nyears, and many editions of Bibles and Testa-\\nments issued from his busy presses.\\nHall Sellers published in 1815 an edition\\nof the New Testament. This is a very rare\\nbook, and only three or four copies are known\\nto be extant. This firm were also the printers\\nin 1786 of the Proposed Book of Common\\nPrayer. Bishop Perry says, Few persons\\nhave seen this remarkable liturgical production\\nand without any discussions of the principles\\ninvolved in its publication, the bibliographical", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 125\\nfact may be stated, that a rarer book connected\\nwith American church history can hardly be\\nnamed.\\nThe Collateral Bible, in which the parallel\\npassages were printed in full, appeared in 1826,\\nHarding being the printer. The Bible was\\nedited by Rev. Dr. Ely, a Presbyterian minister,\\nand Rev. G. T. Bedell, afterwards the Bishop\\nof Ohio. The book did not get beyond one\\nedition.\\nA Bible bearing the following imprint:\\nPhiladelphia Published and sold by Isaac M.\\nMoss, No. 12 South Fourth Street, is of in-\\nterest to collectors, as it contains twenty full-\\npage illustrations by Dr. Alexander Anderson,\\nthe first wood engraver of the United States.\\nNo date is on either of the title-pages. It has\\nbeen conjectured that the year of publication\\nwas about 1844. Strangely enough, the pub-\\nlisher was a Jew. O CaUaghan does not men-\\ntion this Bible.\\n1 Joumsd of General Convention by Et. Rev. William\\nStevens Perry, D.D., vol. iii., p. 125.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "126 EARLY BIBLES.\\nNew York has also contributed through its\\npublishers many and valuable editions of the\\nHoly Scriptures. The first copy of the New\\nTestament came from the press of Hugh Gaine,\\nin 1790. Proposals for printing the Bible were\\ncirculated the same year. It was designated as\\nBrown s Self-instructing Folio Family Bible.\\nIt was to be printed on fine paper, American\\nmanufacture, and on an excellent, large new\\ntype, cast on purpose for this work. It was\\nto be issued in forty numbers, and a number\\nwas to be delivered every two weeks at twenty-\\nfive cents each. The first number was to be\\noffered for examination, and it was agreed if\\nit should not meet with the approbation of the\\nreader, the money shall be immediately re-\\nturned. It was also agreed that those who se-\\ncured subscriptions to the Bible shall receive\\none copy gratis for every twelve they may ob-\\ntain. The numbers appeared from time to\\ntime through two years, until the Bible was\\ncompleted in 1792. The publishers were Hodge\\nCampbell. As the title-page indicates, the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 127\\nbook is supplied with explanatory notes and re-\\nflections by the late Reverend John Brown,\\nMinister of the Gospel at Haddington. There\\nis a frontispiece at the head of the volume,\\nand another before the New Testament. There\\nare also eighteen copper-plate engravings of\\nscenes from Scripture. Heading the printed list\\nof subscribers is the name of George Washing-\\nton.\\nThe same year Hodge Campbell printed\\na quarto edition of the Bible which received\\nthe indorsement of the State Legislature by a\\nvote passed March 18, 1790.\\nEzra Sargent, 86 Broadway, published in 1811\\na quarto edition of the Bible, with a Commen-\\ntary and critical Notes, designed as a help to\\nthe better understanding of the Sacred Writ-\\nings, by Adam Clarke, LL.D. Bibles with\\nClarke s notes multiplied in later years, but\\nthis was the first edition that appeared in the\\nUnited States.\\nThe first Bible printed in this country from\\nstereotjrpe plates cast in the United States,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "128 EARLY BIBLES.\\ncame from the press of D. G. Bruce, No. 27\\nWilliams Street, in 1815.\\nIsaac Collins was succeeded in his business\\nin New York by Collins Co. They printed\\na Bible in quarto in 1814, and their first\\nstereotyped edition in 1816. During many\\nyears various impressions of the Bible and\\nNew Testament have been printed, and the\\nCollins family are still in the publishing busi-\\nness after the lapse of more than a hundred\\nyears.\\nThe New York Bible and Common Prayer\\nBook Society was organized in 1809, and\\nwas the first institution in this country, with\\nthe exception of the Bible Society of Phila-\\ndelphia, for the free distribution of the Scrip-\\ntures. Many missionary fields and destitute\\nparishes have received the benefit of its pub-\\nlications.\\nThe American Bible Society was founded\\nin 1816, and has branches in nearly all the\\nStates. It has gathered a valuable Biblical\\nlibrary of over 3,500 volumes in more than", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 129\\none hundred and fifty different languages and\\ndialects. Since the beginning of the century-\\nit has published more than forty millions of\\ncopies of the New Testament, the Bible and\\nportions of it.\\nThe American and Foreign Bible Society\\nwas organized in 1837, by members of the\\nBaptist denomination. In 1838 it issued an\\noctavo edition of the Bible. It was a reprint\\nof an Oxford Bible of 1833. The New Testa-\\nment in duodecimo was also printed in 1838.\\nThis society for a number of years issued edi-\\ntions of the Scriptures, and assisted the Rev.\\nDr. Jndson of India in publishing a Bible in\\nthe Burmese language.\\nIn 1865 the American Bible Union, also a\\nBaptist organization, published a revised edition\\nof the New Testament. While there are several\\nhundred emendations, they refer mostly to small\\nwords, such as the use of says for saith.\\nThe principal and most decided changes in\\nthe translation consist in the substitution of\\nimmerse for baptize, and immersing for", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "130 EARLY BIBLES.\\nwashing. The following quotations will show\\nthe nature of the revision\\nSt. Mark vii. 3. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews,\\nunless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding\\nthe tradition of the elders\\n4. And coming from the market, unless they immerse\\nthemselves they do not eat; and there are many other things\\nwhich they received to hold, immersions of cups, and pots,\\nand brazen vessels, and couches.\\nSt. John, i. 25. And they asked him, and said to him,\\nWhy then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ,\\nnor Elijah, nor the Prophet?\\n26. John answered them, saying, I immerse in water.\\n28. These things took place in Bethany beyond the\\nJordan, where John was immersing.\\n32. And John testified, saying, I have beheld the Spirit\\ndescending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon\\nhim.\\n33. And I knew him not but he who sent me to im-\\nmerse in water, he said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt\\nsee the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, this is he who\\nimmerses in the Holy Spirit.\\nSt. John iii. 22. After these things came Jesus and his\\ndisciples into the land of Judea; and there he remained\\nwith them and immersed.\\n23. And John also was immersing in ^non near Salim\\nbecause there was much water there and they came and\\nwere immersed.\\nThis version of the New Testament is not as", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 131\\na rule read in public services, but is used as\\na book of reference. There is a difference of\\nopinion among Baptists regarding it, and one\\nedition is printed with the word immerse,\\nand another with the word baptize.\\nThe first Bible printed in the United States\\nfrom electrotyped plates came from the publish-\\ning-house of Harper Brothers in 1846. It\\ncontained 1,600 illustrations, and was called the\\nIlluminated Bible.\\nBoston also contributed early issues of the\\nBible. B. Green published the Gospel of St.\\nJohn in Indian and English in 1707 and 1709.\\nPortions of the Old and New Testaments were\\nprinted by S. Kneeland in 1718. The New\\nHieroglyphical Bible for the amusement and\\ninstruction of children came from the press\\nof W. Norman, Book and Chart Seller, in\\n1794.\\nAn edition of the New Testament appeared\\nin the same year by Alexander Young and\\nThomas Minns. Thomas Andrews issued a\\n12mo Bible in 1801, and repeated it a number\\nof times in after years.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "132 EARLY BIBLES.\\nThe first copy of the New Testament in\\nFrench, published in the United States, came\\nfrom the house of J. T. Buckingham of Boston\\nin 1810.\\nIn 1834, in the same city, Rufus Davenport\\nprinted a Bible which has these words on the\\ntitle-page\\nThe Eight- Aim School Bible; comprising the Holy\\nBible of the Old and New Testaments, and an Annexment\\ncontaining the Free-Debt-Eule Petitions, addressed, the\\nfirst to the Twenty-four States, the Second, to the Con-\\ngress, the Third to the President of the United States of\\nAmerica, and affixed Memorials; the Fourth Petition to\\nthree High Officers of the Government of England. Also\\nthe Declaration of Free-debtism.\\nIn 1834 Manson Grant published a Para-\\ngraph Bible which was edited by Rev. Dr. Coit,\\nthen Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.\\nThe title-page indicates the nature of the work,\\nfor it states that the passages of Scripture\\nare arranged in Paragraphs and Parallelisms\\nwith philological and explanatory Annotations.\\nThe verbal difficulties are explained, and chro-\\nnology noted in the margins. The New Testa-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 183\\nment went througli several editions, and the\\nwhole work was reprinted in England in 1838.\\nThis Bible is of interest from the fact that it\\nwas the first Bible printed in America that con-\\ntained The Address of the Translators to the\\nReader as it appeared in the King James ver-\\nsion of 1611.\\nDr. Coit says in his Preface, Another ac-\\ncompaniment of King James s Bible was the\\nTranslators Preface, or their Address to the\\nReader. How this has fallen into such desue-\\ntude and neglect as to be scarce even in Eng-\\nland, while the Dedication, which wants in\\ncritical value as much as it abounds in pane-\\ngyric, has been printed hundreds of times by\\nking-disliking republicans, it is not easy to\\nconjecture. For, as a document gratifying to\\nthe curious, it might be supposed worthy no\\ninfrequent repetition, and as a document for\\nthe ecclesiastical historian and the critic, it is\\nof a species the foremost in value. What exi-\\ngencies occasioned the translation in use How\\nand by whom was it attempted and superin-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "134 EARLY BIBLES.\\ntended? What leading objects were kept in\\nview in the completion of the work By what\\nspirit were its authors prompted Under what\\nrules did they act, and what objections were\\nraised against their labors These, and ques-\\ntions akin to them, are full of moment to all\\nwho wish to ascertain what gave our present\\nBible its origin, and the standard for testing\\nits merits. Further, Dr. Coit says, The\\neditor must enjoy a few grains of satisfaction,\\neven if with many his labors are thankless, in\\nbeing the first to offer his countrymen a Bible\\nwhich, in some respects, is nearer the book\\nissued by our translators, than any ever pub-\\nlished on this side of the Atlantic. Indeed,\\nthough he has seen many American Bibles, it\\nhas never yet been his fortune to meet with one\\n(except the late imperfect reprint of the Com-\\nprehensive Bible) containing the Translators\\nAddress, with all their various readings.\\nIn 1837 Otis Clapp, No. 121 Washington\\nStreet, published a 12mo Bible which con-\\ntained solely those books of Scripture that", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 135\\nSwedenborg regarded as containing what he\\ncalled an internal sense.\\nThe first copy of the New Testament printed\\nin Delaware was issued by Peter Brynberg in\\n1802.\\nThe first New Testament in Connecticut\\nbore the imprint of A. Morse, New Haven,\\n1790.\\nThe first Bible in the same State was printed\\nat Hartford in 1809, by Hudson Goodwin.\\nIn 1833 Durrie Peck of New Haven pub-\\nlished a Bible with amendments of the lan-\\nguage by Noah Webster, LL.D. In the\\nPreface three reasons are given for undertak-\\ning the revision. In substance, these are first,\\nthe substitution of certain words in place of\\nsuch as are wholly obsolete, or deemed below\\nthe dignity and solemnity of the subject sec-\\nond, the correction of errors in grammar and\\nthird, the insertion of euphemisms, words and\\nphrases which are not very offensive to delicacy.\\nThe amended Bible reached a second edition in\\n1841, but has not been repeated since. There", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "136 EARLY BIBLES.\\nwere editions of tlie New Testament in 1839\\nand 1841. The revision did not meet with the\\nfavor that Dr. Webster had anticipated, and\\nwas as signal a failure as his Dictionary was\\na success. Mr. Scudder says of the revision\\nthat it was sufficient to annoy those who\\nhad an ear for the old version, and really offer-\\ning only such positive helps in interpretation\\nas were generally in the possession of fairly\\neducated men. That he should have done the\\nwork at all, and have done it so faintly, is what\\nsurprises the reader. Further Mr. Scudder\\nsays of Dr. Webster, he was ignorant of what\\nhe was undertaking, and his independent revis-\\nion of the Bible failed to win attention, not be-\\ncause it was audacious, but because it was not\\nbold enough it offered no real contribution to\\nBiblical criticism.\\nThe American Publishing Company of Hart-\\nford issued in 1876 a translation of the Bible\\nmade by Miss Julia E. Smith of Glastonbury,\\n1 Horace E. Scudder s Biography of Noah Webster, pp. 176,\\n177.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 137\\nConn. She learned the Hebrew, but had previ-\\nously a knowledge of the Greek and Latin. She\\nwas seven years making the translation, having\\nattempted it at first for her own satisfaction and\\ninstruction, and without any thought of publi-\\ncation. She says, I continued my labors and\\nwrote out the Bible five times, twice from the\\nGreek, twice from the Hebrew, and once from\\nthe Latin the Vulgate. While this transla-\\ntion has had but little if any effect upon sacred\\nliterature, the persistency, patience, and study\\nwhich resulted in the acquisition of the ancient\\nlanguages of Scripture must be commended.\\nThe rendering of the Lord s Prayer in this\\nversion is as follows\\nSt. Matthew vi. 9. Therefore so do ye pray Our Fa-\\nther which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy.\\n10. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be as in heaven\\nalso upon the earth.\\n11. Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance.\\n12. And let go to us our-debts, as we let go to our debtors.\\n13. And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but\\ndeliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the\\npower, and the glory, forever. Amen.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "138 EARLY BIBLES.\\nIn the colonial times, and the early days of\\nthe American States, there were notable edi-\\ntions of the Bible and New Testament printed\\nin small towns, and especially in the State of\\nPennsylvania. Ephrata in Lancaster County\\nwas settled in 1733 by German Baptists. They\\ndevoted themselves to printing with industry\\nand enterprise, and published books and news-\\npapers in their own tongue. The noted Martyr\\nBooks and editions of the New Testament were\\nprinted on excellent paper made in the town.\\nAn edition of the New Testament in German\\nappeared at this place in 1787, and was probably\\nthe first edition. It is printed in bold, clear-\\nfaced type, and is a most admirable example of\\nearly book-making. It is greatly prized by col-\\nlectors and brings a high price. The title-page\\ndoes not contain the name of any printer, but\\nthere is a note at the end of the Book of Reve-\\nlation which explains that the work was done\\nby the Dunker Community. The note reads\\nN. B. Formerly printed several times, at\\nZurich, Basle, and Frankfort and Leipsic now", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 139\\nhowever, at Ephrata, at the expense of the Breth-\\nren, in the year 1787. At the end of the book\\nare Four beautiful spiritual hymns. A 16mo\\nedition of the Psalms was printed in 1793.\\nO Callaghan makes no reference to the pub-\\nlications at Ephrata, which is a remarkable\\nomission.\\nMichael Billmeyer was an industrious printer\\nof New Testaments at Germantown through a\\nnumber of years. His German Testaments bear\\nthe following dates: 1787, 1795, 1803, 1807,\\n1808, 1810, 1815, 1819, and 1822. He also\\npublished a 12mo edition of the Psalms in\\n1815 and again in 1828. In 1824 Moser\\nPeters of Carlisle issued a German New Testa-\\nment illustrated with twelve rude wood-cuts.\\nIn 1819 Johann Bar published at Lancaster\\na German Bible in folio. The Old Testament\\nhas a frontispiece representing Moses with the\\nTables of the Law, and the New Testament\\nanother frontispiece, being an engraving of the\\nAdoration of the Shepherds. This was probably\\nthe first /oZ^o edition of the Bible in German\\nprinted in the United States.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "140 EARLY BIBLES.\\nSmall towns in other parts of the Union have\\nmultiplied editions of the Scriptures.\\nMerriam Company published in 1815 at\\nBrookfield, Mass., an edition of the Bible of\\n12,000 copies. H. E. Phinney of Coopers-\\ntown, N.Y., published their first edition of the\\nBible in 1822. Their work was well and care-\\nfully done, and for over twenty-five years edi-\\ntion followed edition, and their imprint became\\nfamiliar to Bible readers.\\nAs we have been dealing with early versions\\nand editions, this is not the place to speak of\\nthe magnificent editions of the Bible issued by\\nthe great publishing houses of our day, with\\ntheir splendid facilities for printing and illus-\\ntrating. While many of the early Bibles were\\nrude and unadorned, we must respect them, for\\nthey represent conscientious work and the best\\nart of their time.\\nIn the consideration of our subject no attempt\\nhas been made to be inclusive, as the theme is\\nso large that only leading editions of the Bible\\ncould be noticed. O Callaghan numbers the", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "VARIOUS EDITIONS. 141\\ntitles of Bibles or portions thereof, published in\\nAmerica from 1661 to 1880, at fifteen hundred.\\nSuch facts are evidences of the enduring hold\\nthat the Book of books has upon the heart of\\nman.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES.\\nAPPENDIX A.\\nDEDICATION IN THE ELIOT NEW TESTAMENT\\nOF 1661.\\nTo the High and Mighty Prince^ Charles the\\nSecond^ hy the Gtrace of God, King of Eng-\\nland, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender\\nof the Faith, ^c.\\nThe Commissioners of the United Colonies\\nin New England, wish increase of all happi-\\nness, c.\\nMost Dread Soveraign, If our weak appre-\\nhensions have not misled us, this Work will be\\nno unacceptable Present to Your Majesty, as\\nhaving a greater Interest therein, than we be-\\nlieve is generally understood which (upon this\\nOccasion) we conceive it our duty to declare.\\nThe People of these four Colonies (Confed-\\nerated for Mutual Defence, in the time of the\\nlate Distractions of our dear Native Country)\\n143", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "144 EARLY BIBLES.\\nYour Majesties natural born Subjects, by the\\nFavour and Grant of Your Royal Father and\\nGrandfather of Famous Memory, put themselves\\nupon this great and hazardous Undertaking, of\\nPlanting themselves at their own Charge in\\nthese remote ends of the Earth, that without\\noffence or provocation to our dear Brethren and\\nCountrymen, we might enjoy that liberty to\\nWorship God, which our own Consciences in-\\nformed us, was not onely our Right, but Duty:\\nAs also that we might (if it so pleased God) be\\ninstrumental to spread the light of the Gospel,\\nthe knowledg of the Son of God our Saviour,\\nto the poor barbarous Heathen, which by His\\nlate Majesty, in some of our Patents, is declared\\nto be His principal aim.\\nThese honest and Pious Intentions, have,\\nthrough the grace and goodness of God and our\\nKings, been seconded with proportionable suc-\\ncess for, omitting the Immunities indulged us\\nby Your Highness Royal Predecessors, we have\\nbeen greatly encouraged by Your Majesties\\ngracious expressions of Favour and Approba-", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 145\\ntion signified, unto the Address made by the\\nprincipal of our Colonies, to which the rest do\\nmost cordially Subscribe, though wanting the\\nlike seasonable opportunity, they have been\\n(till now) deprived of the means to Congratu-\\nlate your Majesties happy Restitution, after\\nYour long suffering, which we implore may yet\\nbe graciously accepted, that we may be equal\\npartakers of Your Royal Favour and Modera-\\ntion; which hath been so Illustrious that (to\\nadmiration) the animosities and different Per-\\nswasions of men have been so soon Composed,\\nand so much cause of hope, that (unless the\\nsigns of the nation prevent) a blessed calm will\\nsucceed the late horrid Confusions of Church\\nand State. And shall not we (Dread Soveraigri)\\nyour Subjects of these Colonies, of the same\\nFaith and Belief in all Points of Doctrine with\\nour Countrymen, and the other Reformed\\nChurches, (though perhaps not all alike per-\\nswaded in some matters of Order, which in out-\\nward respects hath been unhappy for us) prom-\\nise and assure ourselves of all just favour and", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "146 EARLY BIBLES.\\nindulgence from a Prince so happily and gra-\\nciously endowed?\\nThe other part of our Errand hither, hath\\nbeen attended with Endevours and Blessing\\nmany of the wilde Indians being taught, and\\nunderstanding the Doctrine of the Christian\\nReligion, and with much affection attending\\nsuch Preachers as are sent to teach them, many\\nof their Children are instructed to Write and\\nReade, and some of them have proceeded fur-\\nther, to attain the knowledge of the Latine and\\nGreek Tongues, and are brought up with our\\nEnglish youth in University-learning: There\\nare divers of them that can and do reade some\\nparts of the Scripture, and some Catechisms,\\nwhich formerly have been Translated into their\\nown Language, which hath occasioned the\\nundertaking of a greater Work, viz The\\nPrinting of the whole Bible, which (being\\nTranslated by a painful Labourer amongst them,\\nwho was desirous to see the Work accomplished\\nin his dayes) hath already proceeded to the fin-\\nishing of the New Testament, which we here", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 147\\nhumbly present to Your Majesty, as the first\\nfruits and accomplishment of the Pious Design\\nof your Royal Ancestors. The Old Testament\\nis now under the Press, wanting and craving\\nyour Royal Favour and Assistance for the per-\\nfecting thereof.\\nWe may not conceal, that though this Work\\nhath been begun and prosecuted by such Instru-\\nments as God hath raised up here, yet the chief\\nCharge and Cost, which hath supported and\\ncarried it thus far, hath been from the Charity\\nand Piety of divers of our well-affected Coun-\\ntrymen in England who being sensible of our\\ninability in that respect, and studious to pro-\\nmote so good a Work, contributed large Sums\\nof Money, which were to be improved according\\nto the Direction and Order of the then prevail-\\ning Powers, which hath been faithfully and reli-\\ngiously attended both there and here, according\\nto the pious intentions of the Benefactors. And\\nwe do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that\\na matter of so much Devotion and Piety, tend-\\ning so much to the Honour of God, may suffer", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "148 EARLY BIBLES.\\nno disappointment tlirougli any Legal defect\\n(without the fault of the Donors, or the poor\\nIndians, who onely receive the benefit) but that\\nyour Majesty be graciously pleased to Establish\\nand Confirm the same, being contrived and done\\n(as we conceive) in the first year of your Majes-\\nties Reign, as this Book was begun and now fin-\\nished in the first year of your Establishment\\nwhich doth not onely presage the happy success\\nof your Highness Government, but will be a\\nperpetual monument, that by your Majesties\\nFavour the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour\\nJesus Christ, was first made known to the Indi-\\nans An Honour whereof (we are assured)\\nyour Majesty will not a little esteem.\\nSir, 27ie shines of Your Royal Favour upon\\nthese Vhdertakings, will make these tender Plants\\nto flourish, notwithstanding any malevolent\\nAspect from those that bear evil will to this Sion,\\nand render Your Majesty more Illustrious and\\nGlorious to after Generations.\\nTJie God of Heaven long preserve and bless\\nYour Majesty with many happy Dayes, to his\\nGlory, the good and comfort of his Church and\\nPeople. Amen.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 149\\nAPPENDIX B.\\nDEDICATION IN THE ELIOT BIBLE OF 1663.\\nTo the High and Mighty Prince, Charles the\\nSecond, hy the Grrace of Grod, King of Eng-\\nland, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender\\nof the Faith, ^c.\\nThe Commissioners of the United Colonies in\\nNew-England, wish all happiness, c.\\nMost Deead Soveraign, As our former\\nPresentation of the New Testament was Gra-\\nciously Accepted by Your Majesty so with all\\nHumble Thankfulness for that Royal Favour,\\nand with the like hope, We are bold now to\\nPresent the WHOLE BIBLE, Translated into\\nthe Language of the Natives of this Country,\\nby A Painful Labourer in that Work, and now\\nPrinted and Finished, by means of the Pious\\nBeneficence of Your Majesties Subjects in Eng-\\nland: which also by Your Special Favour have\\nbeen Continued and Confirmed to the intended\\nUse and Advancement of so Great and Good a\\nWork, as is the Propagation of the Gospel to", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "150 EARLY BIBLES.\\nthese poor Barbarians in this (Erewhile) Un-\\nknown World.\\nTranslations of Holy Scripture, The Word\\nof the King of Kings., have ever been deemed\\nnot unworthy of the most Princely Dedica-\\ntions Examples whereof are extant in divers\\nLanguages. But Your Majesty is the First\\nthat hath Received one in this Language, or\\nfrom this American World., or from any Parts\\nso Remote from Europe as these are, for ought\\nthat ever we heard of.\\nPublications of these Sacred Writings to\\nthe Sons of Men (who here, and here onely,\\nhave the Mysteries of their Eternal Salvation\\nrevealed to them by the God of Heaven) is a\\nWork that the Greatest Princes have Honoured\\nthemselves by. But to Publish and Communi-\\ncate the same to a Lost People, as remote from\\nKnowledge and Civility, much more from\\nChristianity, as they were from all Knowing,\\nCivil and Christian Nations a People without\\nLaw, without Letters, without Riches, or\\nMeans to procure any such thing; a people that", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 151\\nsate as deep in Darkness, and in the Shadow of\\nDeath, as (we think) any since the Creation\\nThis puts a Lustre upon it that is Superlative\\nand to have given Royal Patronage and Coun-\\ntenance to such a Publication, or to the\\nMeans thereof, will stand among the Marks of\\nLasting Honour in the eyes of all that are\\nConsiderate, even unto After-Generations.\\nAnd though there be in this Western\\nWorld many Colonies of other Europaean\\nNations, yet we humbly conceive, no Prince\\nhath had a Return of such a Work as this\\nwhich may be some Token of the Success of\\nYour Majesties Plantation of New-England,\\nUndertaken and Setled under the Encourage-\\nment and Security of Grants from Your Royal\\nFather and Grandfather, of Famous Memory,\\nand Cherished with late Gracious Aspects from\\nYour Majesty. Though indeed, the present\\nPoverty of these Plantations could not have\\nAccomplished this Work, had not the foremen-\\ntioned Bounty of England lent Relief Nor\\ncould that have Continued to stand us in stead,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "152 EARLY BIBLES.\\nwithout the Influence of Your Royal Favour\\nand Authority, whereby the Corporation there,\\nfor Propagating the Crospel among these Na-\\ntives^ hath been Established and Encouraged\\n(whose Labour of Love, Care and Faithfulness\\nin that Trust, must ever be remembred with\\nHonour.) Yea, when private persons, for their\\nprivate Ends, have of late sought Advantages\\nto deprive the said Corporation of Half the\\nPossessions that had been, by Liberal Contribu-\\ntions, obtained for so Religious Ends; We\\nunderstand, That by an Honourable and Right-\\neous Decision in Your Majesties Court of\\nChancery^ their Hopes have been defeated, and\\nthe Thing Settled where it was and is. For\\nwhich great Favour and Illustrious Fruit of\\nYour Majesties Government, we cannot but re-\\nturn our most Humble Thanks in this Publick\\nManner And, as the Result, of the joynt En-\\ndeavours of Your Majesties Subjects there and\\nhere, acting under Your Royal Influence, We\\nPresent You with this Work, which upon\\nsundry accounts is to be called Yours.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 153\\nThe Southern Colonies of the Spanish\\nNation have sent home from this American\\nContinent, much Gold and Silver, as the Fruit\\nand End of their Discoveries and Transplanta-\\ntions That (we confess is a scarce Commodity\\nin this Colder Climate. But (sutable to the\\nEnds of our Undertaking) we Present this, and\\nother Concomitant Fruits of our poor Endeav-\\nours to Plant and Propagate the Gospel here\\nwhich, upon a true account, is as much better\\nthan Gold, as the Souls of men are more worth\\nthan the whole World. This is a Nobler Fruit\\n(and indeed, in the Counsels of All-Disposing\\nProvidence, was an higher intended End) of\\nColumbus his adventure. And though by his\\nBrother s being hindred from a seasonable\\nApplication, your Famous Predecessour and\\nAncestor, King Henry the Seventh, missed of\\nbeing sole owner of that first Discovery, and of\\nthe Riches thereof yet, if the Honour of first\\nDiscovering the True and Saving Knowledge of\\nthe Gospel unto the poor Americam^ and of\\nErecting the Kingdom of JESUS CHRIST", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "154 EARLY BIBLES.\\namong them, be Reserved for, and do Redound\\nunto your Majesty, and the English Nation,\\nAfter-ages Will not reckon this Inferiour to\\nthe other. Religion is the End and Glory of\\nMankinde and as it was the Professed End of\\nthis Plantation so we desire ever to keep it in\\nour Eye as our main design (both as to our\\nselves, and the Natives about us) and that our\\nProducts may be answerable thereunto. Give\\nus therefore leave {Dread Soveraign) yet again\\nhumbly to Beg the Continuance of your Royal\\nFavour, and of the Influences thereof, upon\\nthis poor Plantation, The United Colonies of\\nNEW ENGLAND, for the Securing and\\nEstablishment of our Civil Priviledges, and\\nReligious Liberties hitherto Enjoyed and,\\nupon this Good Work of Propagating Religion\\nto these Natives, that the Supports and Encour-\\nagements thereof from England may be still\\ncountenanced and Confirmed. May this Nurs-\\nling still suck the Breast of Kings, and be\\nfostered by your Majesty, as it hath been by\\nyour Royal Predecessors, unto the Preservation", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 155\\nof its main Concernments It shall thrive and\\nprosper to the Glory of God, and the Honour\\nof your Majesty Neither will it be any loss or\\ngrief unto our Lord the King, to have the\\nBlessings of the Poor to come upon Him, and\\nthat from these Ends of the Earth.\\nThe Crod hy whom Kings Reign, and Princes\\nDecree Justice, Bless Your Majesty, and\\nEstablish your Throne in Righteousness, in\\nMercy and in Truth, to the Glory of His\\nName, the Good of his People, and to your\\nown Comfort and Rejoycing, not in this\\nonely, but in another World,", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "156 EARLY BIBLES.\\nAPPENDIX C.\\nTo the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq:\\nGovernour^ And to the Company, for the\\nPropagation of The Gospel to the Indians\\nin New England, and Parts adjacent in\\nAmerica.\\nHonourable S^s, There are more than\\nthirty years passed since the Charitable and\\nPious Collections were made throughout the\\nKingdom of EngZawc?, for the Propagation of\\nthe Gospel to the Indians, Natives of His\\nMAJESTIES Territories in America and near\\nthe same time since by His late MAJESTIES\\nfavour of ever blessed Memory, the Affair was\\nerected into an Honourable Corporation by\\nCharter under the Broad Seal of England in all\\nwhich time our selves and those that were before\\nus, that have been Your Stewards, and managed\\nYour Trust here, are witnesses of Your earnest\\nand sincere endeavours, that that good Work\\nmight prosper and flourish, not only by the\\ngood management of the Estate committed to", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES. 157\\nYou, but by Your own Charitable and Honour-\\nable Additions thereto whereof this second\\nEdition of the HOLY BIBLE in their own\\nLanguage, much corrected and amended, we\\nhope will be an everlasting witness for where-\\nsoever this Gospel shall be Preached, this also\\nthat you have done, shall be spoken of for a\\nMemorial of you and as it hath, so it shall be\\nour studious desire and endeavour, that the\\nsuccess amongst the Indians here, in reducing\\nthem into a civil and holy life, may in some\\nmeasure answer the great and necessary Ex-\\npences thereabouts And our humble Prayer to\\nAlmighty God, that You may have the glorious\\nReward of your Service, both in this and in a\\nbetter World.\\nWe are Your Honours most Humble and\\nFaithful Servants,\\nWilliam Stoughtok.\\nJoseph Dudley.\\nPeter Bulkley.\\nThomas Hinckley.\\nBoston, Octob. 23, 1685.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "158\\nEARLY BIBLES.\\nAPPENDIX D.\\nList of oivners of Eliot New Testaments and Bibles, as\\nfar as known.\\nNew Testaments of 1661.\\nBritish Museum (2),\\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\\nBodleian Library,\\nTown Library,\\nEdinburgh Library,\\nUniversity Library,\\nTrinity College,\\nHarvard University,\\nLenox Library (2),\\nBoston Athenaeum,\\nLibrary of the late John Carter Brown\\nLibrary of the late George Livermore,\\nMr. Clarence S. Bement,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nMr. Frederick F. Thompson,\\nMitchell s Book Store,\\nLondon, Eng.\\nLondon, Eng.\\nOxford, Eng.\\nLeicester, Eng.\\nEdinburgh, Scot.\\nGlasgow, Scot.\\nDublin, Ire.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nNew York, N T.\\nBoston, Mass.\\n(2), Providence, R. I.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nChicago, 111.\\nNew York, N, Y.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nBible of 1663.\\nBritish Museum,\\nBodleian Library,\\nUniversity Library,\\nLibrary of Duke of Devonshire,\\nLibrary of Earl of Spencer,\\nGlasgow University,\\nTrinity College,\\nRoyal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nLondon, Eng.\\nOxford, Eng.\\nCambridge, Eng.\\nChatsworth, Eng.\\nAlthorp, Eng.\\nGlasgow, Scot.\\nDublin, Ire.\\nStuttgart, Ger.\\nBerlin, Ger.\\nCopenhagen, Den.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES.\\n159\\nZealand Academy of Science,\\nUniversity of Virginia,\\nBrown University,\\nHarvard University,\\nBowdoin College,\\nLibrary of Congress (2),\\nLenox Library (2),\\nAndover Theological Seminary,\\nAstor Library,\\nAmerican Antiquarian Society,\\nBoston Athenajum,\\nBoston Public Library,\\nMassachusetts Historical Society,\\nPhiladelphia Library Company,\\nCongregational Church,\\nWilliam Everett, Ph. D.,\\nLibrary of the late George Livermore,\\nJ. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D.,\\nLibrary of the late Joseph W. Drexel,\\nMr. Theodore Irwin,\\nMr. John Lyon Gardner,\\nMrs. Laura Eliot Cutter,\\nLibrary of the late Charles H. Kalbfleisch\\nMr. J. Pierpont Morgan,\\nLibrary of the late John Carter Brown,\\nMr. E. P. Vining,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nMr. Frederick F. Thompson,\\nMr. Sumner Hollingsworth,\\nMr. Charles R. Hildeburn,\\nMiddleburg, Holl.\\nCharlottesville, Va.\\nProvidence, R. I.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nBrunswick, Me.\\nWashington, D.C.\\nNew York, IST. Y.\\nAndover, Mass.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nWorcester, Mass.\\nBoston, Mass.\\nBoston, Mass.\\nBoston, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nNewport, R. I.\\nQuincy, Mass.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nHartford, Conn.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nOswego, N. Y.\\nGardner s Island, N. Y.\\nBrooklyn, N. Y.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nProvidence, R. I.\\nSt. Louis, Mo.\\nChicago, 111.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nBoston, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nNew Testament of 1680.\\nMr. W. B. Shillaber,\\nBoston, Mass.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "160\\nEARLY BIBLES.\\nBible of 1685.\\nBritish Museum,\\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\\nBodleian Library,\\nTrinity College,\\nLibrary of Advocates,\\nEdinburgh University,\\nGlasgow University,\\nRoyal Library,\\nLeyden University,\\nPrince Stolberg Library,\\nUtrecht University,\\nRoyal Library,\\nUniversity Library,\\nLibrary of the Earl of Spencer,\\nHarvard University,\\nUniversity of South Carolina,\\nYale College,\\nTrinity College,\\nMorse Institute,\\nEowdoin College,\\nDartmouth College (2),\\nPilgrim Society,\\nPhiladelphia Library Co. (2),\\nAndover Theological Seminary,\\nLenox Library (2),\\nLong Island Historical Society,\\nMassachusetts Historical Society,\\nNew York Historical Society,\\nHistorical Society Pennsylvania,\\nNew York State Library,\\nAmerican Antiquarian Society (2),\\nAmerican Philosophical Society (2),\\nLondon, Eng.\\nLondon, Eng.\\nOxford, Eng.\\nCambridge, Eng.\\nEdinburgh, Scot.\\nEdinburgh, Scot.\\nGlasgow, Scot.\\nStuttgart, Ger.\\nLeyden, HoM.\\nWernigerode, Ger.\\nUtrecht, Holl.\\nCopenhagen, Den.\\nCopenhagen, Den.\\nAlthorp, Eng.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nColumbia, S. C.\\nNew Haven, Conn.\\nHartford, Conn.\\nNatick, Mass.\\nBrunswick, Me.\\nHanover, N. H.\\nPlymouth, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nAndover, Mass.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nBrooklyn, N. Y.\\nBoston, Mass.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nAlbany, N. Y.\\nWorcester, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nContains the original dedication to Hon. Robert Boyle.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES.\\n161\\nBoston Athenaeum (2), Boston, Mass.\\nBoston Public Library, Boston, Mass.\\nLibrary of Congress, Washington, D. C.\\nCongregational Library, Boston, Mass.\\nConnecticut Historical Society (2), Hartford, Conn.\\nRev. John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D., Washington, D. C.\\nDr. Charles R. King, Andalusia, Penn.\\nMr. Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago, 111.\\nLibrary of the late George Livermore, Cambridge, Mass.\\nDr. Ellsworth Eliot, New York, N. T.\\nLibrary of the late Col. Geo. W. Pratt, New York, N. Y.\\nJ. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., Hartford, Conn.\\nMr. Lucius L. Hubbard (2), Cambridge, Mass.\\nLibrary of the late George Brinley, Hartford, Conn.\\nMr. Wilberforce Eames, Brooklyn, N. Y.\\nLibrary of the late John Carter Brown (2), Providence, R. I.\\nRev. Henry M. Dexter, Boston, Mass.\\nMr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York, N. Y.\\nMr. C. F. Gunther, Chicago, 111.\\nKECAPITtJLATION.\\nCopies owned in Europe,\\nCopies owned in the United States,\\nTotal,\\n33\\n89\\n122", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "162 EARLY BIBLES.\\nAPPENDIX E.\\nSome of the prices paid for Eliot New Testaments and\\nBibles.\\nNew Testament of 1661.\\nThompson copy $340.00\\nBement copy 610.00\\nLenox Library copy 700.00\\nBible of 1663.\\nGunther copy $250.00\\nDrexel copy 550.00\\nCutter copy 900.00\\nMorgan copy 1,000.00\\nAstor Library copy 1,125.00\\nHildeburn copy 1,600.00\\nKalbfleisch copy 2,900.00\\nBible of 1685.\\nEames copy $140.00\\nEliot copy 230.00\\nTrumbull copy 325.00\\nLeitercopy 500.00\\nVanderbilt copy 550.00\\nPenn. Historical Society copy 590.00\\nBrown copy 950.00", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES.\\n163\\nAPPENDIX F.\\nList of owners of the Saur Bibles as far as known.\\nDucal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nPrince Stolberg Library,\\nt Dr. J. Haeberlin,\\nLandes Bibliotbek,\\nDucal Library,\\nRoyal Library,\\nHarvard University,\\nLafayette College,\\nTale College,\\nLibrary of Congress,\\nNewberry Library,\\nGerinania Society,\\nHistorical Society (3),\\nLenox Library,\\nMr, Theodore Irwin,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nRev. John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D\\nMr. Howard Edwards,\\nMr. Abraham Cassel,\\nSamuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D.,\\nBible of 1U3.\\nWolfenbiittel, Ger.\\nFrankfort-on-the Main, Ger.\\nDresden, Ger.\\nStuttgart, Ger.\\nWernigerode, Ger.\\nFrankfort-on-the Main, Ger.\\nCassel, Ger.\\nGotha, Ger.\\nCopenhagen, Den.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nEaston, Penn.\\nNew Haven Conn.\\nWashington, D. C.\\nChicago, 111.\\nChicago, 111.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nOswego, N. Y.\\nChicago, 111.\\nWashington, D. C.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nHarleysville, Penn.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\n*Dr. Ruppersburg, In United States, but place unknown.\\nBible of 1763.\\nLenox Library,\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nPresentation copy from Mr. H. E. Luther.\\ntMr. H. E. Luther s own copy.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "164\\nEARLY BIBLES.\\nState Library,\\nHistorical Society (2),\\nMr. Howard Edwards,\\nRev. Jolin F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nSamuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D.,\\nMr. Abraham Cassel,\\nEev. John Wright, D.D.,\\nHarrisburg, Perm.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nWashington, D. C.\\nChicago, 111.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nHarleysville, Penn.\\nSt. Paul, Minn.\\nBible of 1776.\\nUnion College,\\nHarvard University,\\nHistorical Society (3),\\nHistorical Society,\\nLong Island Historical Society,\\nMinnesota Historical Society,\\nLenox Library,\\nPhiladelphia Library Company,\\nAmerican Bible Society,\\nFriends Free Library,\\nEev. John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D. (3),\\nSamuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D.,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nMr. Howard Edwards,\\nMr. Theodore Irwin,\\nMr. Abraham Cassel,\\nRev. John Wright, D.D.,\\nThe Sower families, 40 copies of the various editions,\\nPhiladelphia, Penn\\nSchenectady, N Y.\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nBrooklyn, N. Y.\\nSt. Paul, Minn.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nGermantown, Penn.\\nWashington, D. C.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nChicago, 111.\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nOswego, N. Y.\\nHarleysville, Penn.\\nSt. Paul, Minn.\\nKECAPITULATION.\\nCopies owned in Europe,\\nCopies owned in the United States,\\nTotal,\\n9\\n97", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "APPENDICES.\\n165\\nAPPENDIX G.\\nList of owners of the Aitken Bible as far as known.\\nBritish Museum,\\nLondon, Eng.\\nMassachusetts Historical Society,\\nBoston, Mass.\\nNew York State Library,\\nAlbany, N. Y.\\nLibrary of Congress,\\nWashington, D. C.\\nAmerican Antiquarian Society,\\nWorcester, Mass.\\nAmerican Bible Society,\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nLenox Library (2),\\nNew York, N. Y.\\nMaryland Episcopal Library,\\nBaltimore, Md.\\nConnecticut Historical Society,\\nHartford, Conn,\\nPhiladelphia Library Company (2),\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nPennsylvania Historical Society,\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nMr, Abraham Cassel,\\nHarleysville, Penn,\\nMr. Howard Edwards,\\nPhiladelphia, Penn.\\nMr. William Y. McAllister,\\nPhiladelphia, Penn,\\nSamuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D.,\\nPhiladelphia, Penn,\\nMr. C. F. Gunther,\\nChicago, 111.\\nPvev. John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D.,\\nWashington, D. C,\\nRECAPITULATION,\\nCopy owned in England,\\n1\\nCopies owned in the United States,\\n18\\nTotal,\\n19", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAlTKEN Bible, Thomas s statement about, 55,56; correctness of this\\nstatement questioned by Bancroft, 57; first copy of, in British\\nMuseum, 57; Sam Hazard s letter about, 58; sanction and sup-\\nport of Congress sought for, 61 report of Congressional Chap-\\nlains upon, 62 resolution of Congress upon, 63 description of,\\n63,64,65; title-page of, 64; financially unsuccessful, 66; resolu-\\ntion of Presbyterian Synod upon, 66; rarity of, 67; of interest to\\nAmericans, 67 owners of, Appendix G, 163.\\nAiTKEN, Jane, 120.\\nAiTKEN New Testament, copy of, in Lenox Library, 60; title-page\\nof, 60 description of, 61 editions of, 61 title-page of, in Bible\\nof 1782, 65.\\nAiTKEN, KOBEET, 59, 61, 120.\\nAlgonkin Language, 14, 15 had no equivalent for certain words,\\n14 Cotton Mather s opinion of, 15 Dr. Ellis on, 15.\\nAmerican Antiquarian Society, Isaiah Thomas s connection\\nwith, 84, 85.\\nAmerican Bible Society, number of its publications, 128.\\nAmerican Bible Union, its revised New Testament, 129-131.\\nAmerican and Foreign Bible Society, 129.\\nAmerican Monthly Review on Dickinson s New and Corrected\\nVersion of the New Testament, quoted, 107.\\nApocrypha, why omitted in some copies of Collins s Bible, 90.\\nBancroft s History of the United States, quoted, 56, 57.\\nBar, Johann, publisher of first German folio Bible, 139.\\nBible, Aitken, 55, and owners of. Appendix G; Berriman Co. s,\\n122; Brown s Self -Instructing, 126 Bruce s, 128; Carey s, 121;\\nClapp s, 134; Colt s Paragraph, 132-134; Collins s, 86, 128; Col-\\nlateral, 125 Cummiskey s, 124; Eliot of 1663, 4-16, 21, 22, 25, 110,\\nAppendices B and Eliot of 1685, 19-22, Appendices D and E\\n167", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "168 INDEX.\\nfirst electrotyped, 131; first in Conn., 135; first from American\\nstereotyped plates, 127; Franklin s proposed, 104; first German\\nfolio, 139; Hebrew, 124; Hieroglyphical, 131; Hodge Camp-\\nbell s, 127; Hot-press, 122; Illuminated, 131; Kimber, Conrad\\nCo. s, 123; Latin, 121, 124; Moss s, 125; New York, 126, 127; Phil-\\nadelphia, 120-125; Right-Aim School, 132; Sargent s, 127; Saur\\nof 1743, 28 and Appendix F; Saur of 1763, 50 and Appendix F;\\nSaur of 1776, 51 and AppendixF; Smith s, Julia E., 136; Thomas,\\n76; Webster s (Noah), 135 Young s, 121; Yungmann s German 53.\\nBiBLE-CONGKESS, 67.\\nBiLLMEYER, MICHAEL, 139.\\nBlomfield s Greek Testament, 115, 116.\\nBoyle, Hon. Robert, 7, 19, 20; dedication to, in copies of Eliot\\nBible of 1685, Appendix C.\\nBradford, William, Proposal to print the Biblo, 119, 120.\\nCarey, Matthew, 121.\\nCoiT s Paragraph Bible, 132; Quotation from preface of, 1.33.\\nCollins, Isaac, 86, 128; proposes to publish a Bible, 87.\\nCollins Bible. Proposal, indorsed by Society of Friends, 87, 88;\\nconditionally by Baptist Association, 89; resolution of Presbyte-\\nrian General Assembly, 88 resolution of Convention of Protest-\\nant Episcopal Church, 89; title-page of, 90; copies without\\nApocrypha, 90.\\nCongress, petitioned by Robert Aitken for support, 61; appoints\\nCommittee to report thereon, 61; report of Committee, 62; re-\\nport of Chaplains of, 62; resolution of, upon Aitken s Bible, 63;\\ncalled Bible-Congress, 67.\\nCorporation for Promoting and Propagating the Gospel, etc. its\\nformation, 3; assists in printing Indian Bible, 4.\\nCotton, Rev. John, assisted Eliot in preparing the second edition\\nof the Indian Bible, 18.\\nDedication of Eliot s New Testament, 7 and Appendix A.\\nDedication of Eliot s Bible of 1663, Appendix B.\\nDedication to Hon. Robert Boyle, in copies of Eliot Bible of 1685,\\n19, 20, and Appendix C.\\nDickinson, Rodolphus, New and Corrected Version of the New\\nTestament, quoted, 107.\\nDouAY Version.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Publishers appeal, quoted, 70, 71; title-page of\\n72; description of, 72, 73.\\nEames, Wilberforce, Bibliographic Notes on Eliot s Indian\\nBible, etc., quoted, 13.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 169\\nEbeling, Dr. C. D., his copy of Eliot Bible, 43.\\nElectrotyped Plates, when first used in printing American\\nBibles, 131.\\nEliot Bible. Translation of whole Bible, 4, 15; this edition de-\\nscribed, 9-16; English title-page, 9; Indian title-page, 10; edi-\\ntion of 1685, description of, 19; value of this edition, 21; com-\\nparative importance of first and second editions, 21 interesting\\nassociations connected with certain copies of, 22; errors in edi-\\ntion of 1663, 13, 14, 20, 110; errors in edition of 1685, 20; owners\\nof, 22-26 and Appendix D prices of, 21, 22, 25 and Appendix E.\\nEliot, John. Purpose of, in coming to New England, 1; education,\\n2; studies Indian language, 2; desires to translate the Bible, 3,\\n4; translation accomplished, 4; publishes the New Testament,\\n5; publishes whole Bible, 9; character of, 26; Apostle to the\\nIndians, 26; Life of, by Francis, quoted, 16.\\nEliot New Testament. Published, 5; described, 6, 7; title-page\\nof, in English, 5 in Indian, 6; second edition described, 16, 17;\\nowners of, 8 and Appendix D.\\nEllis, Dr., on Indian words, quoted, 15.\\nEngles, Joseph P., 116, 117.\\nEphrata, Penn., Bibles printed at, 138; not mentioned by O Calla-\\nghan, 139-\\nErrors, Printers 111.\\nFrancis, Life of Eliot, quoted, 16.\\nFranklin, Benjamin, proposal for a New Version of the Bible, 104,\\n105 McJIasters, on this proposal, quoted, 105.\\nGerman, Bible in, Saur s, 28; Tungmann s, 53; first folio in, 139;\\nNew Testament in, 138, 139.\\nGreek, New Testament in, first American edition of, 112; other\\neditions, 112-118; Blomfield s, 115; Polymicrian, 116, 117.\\nGreen, Samuel, 3, 19.\\nGreenfield, William, 117.\\nHazard, Sam, letter of, referring to Aitken Bible, 58.\\nHiEROGLYPHICAL BiBLE, 109.\\nHiMES, Joshua V., 106.\\nIndian Language. Cotton Mather, on, 15; Eev. Dr. Ellis, on,\\nquoted, 15; Lord s Prayer in, 15.\\nIndians, desire of, for Bibles, 18.\\nKneeland, Kev. Abner, 114.\\nLord s Prayer, translated into Indian language, 3 Indian Version\\nof, 15; Julia E. Smith s version of, 137; Kev. Samuel Mather s\\nrendering of, 106.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "170 INDEX.\\nLuther, Heinrich E., aasists Saur, 34, 47.\\nMather, Cotton, Magnalia, quoted, 16; opinion of Indian words,\\n15.\\nMather, Kev. Samuel, his rendering of the Lord s Prayer, 106.\\nMcMasters, quotation from Life of Benjamin Franklin, in American\\nMen of Letters Series, 105.\\nMerriam Co. s editionof the Bible, 140.\\nMillerite New Testament, 108.\\nMurdoch, James, translation of Peshito Syriac New Testament,\\n99 his career, 101.\\nNew Testament, American Bible Union s, quoted, 139 Dictated\\nby the Spirit, 109; Eliot of 1661, owners of. Appendix D; prices\\nof this edition. Appendix E; Eliot of 1680, owners of, Appendix\\nD; Eliot of 1661, title-pages, 5, 6; French, 132; Gaine s, 126;\\nGerman, 138, 139; Greek, 112-118 modern Greek, 118; Hall\\nSeller s, 124; in Conn., 135; in Delaware, 135; Millerite, 108;\\nPeshito Syriac, 97; Saur, 52; Socinian, 109.\\nNew York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society, 128.\\nO Callaghan, Dr. E. B., his List of Bibles, etc., referred to, 13,\\n20, 52, 57, 139, 140.\\nOmission in Eliot Bible, 20.\\nPenn. Magazine of History and Biography, quoted, 95, 96.\\nPeshito Syriac New Testament.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Date of, 97; first editionof, 99;\\nfirst American translation, 99; first English translation, 99; Pre-\\nface of first American translation, quoted, 100; title-page of, 100.\\nPhinney, H. E., edition of the Bible, 140.\\nSalt, no equivalent for, in Indian language, 14.\\nSaur Bible. Proposal of, quoted, 32, 33; publication of, 34 title-\\npage of, in German, 35; title-page translated, 35; collation of,\\n35; Preface of, 36-39; description of, 39; history of copies sent\\nto H. E. Luther, 40-46; Dedication in Luther s copy, 42; letter\\nof Dr. T. Schott about presentation copy, 44; Inscription in\\nCount Heinrich De Bunan s copy, 45; Luther s list of presenta-\\ntion copies, 46; second edition of, described, 50; third edition\\nof, 51 owners of. Appendix F.\\nSauk New Testament; dates of issue, 52; certain editions of, omit-\\nted by O Callaghan, 52.\\nSeptuagint. First American translation of, 91 title-page of this\\ntranslation, 92; value of it, 93, 95.\\nSmith, Julia E., her translation quoted, 137.\\nStereotype Plates, American, first Bible from, 127.", "height": "2860", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "earlybiblesofame00wrig_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 171\\nThomas Bible. Prospectus, 77; folio edition, title-page, and de-\\nscription of, 78 New Testament title-page, 79; royal quarto\\nedition, title-page and description of, 80, 81; other editions, 83;\\nPreface quoted, 82.\\nThomas, B. F., Memoir of Isaiah Thomas, quoted, 84.\\nThomas, Isaiah. Career of 74-76, 83,84; called the Baskerville,\\nof America, 82; his History of Printing in America, quoted\\n29, 30, 55, 56.\\nThomson, Chakles. Anecdote about, 91; career of, 93; his trans-\\nlation of the Septuagint, 91-93, 95, 96; Synopsis of the four\\nEvangelists, 96.\\nTkumbull, Dr., his article in Memorial History of Boston, quoted,\\n14 discovered omission in Eliot Bible, 20.\\nWashington, George, remark of, about Thomas, quoted, 84.\\nWatson s, Annals of Philadelphia, quoted, 91, 92.\\nWebster, Noah, proposes an amended Bible, 135; Biography of, by\\nHorace E. 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