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1927618901927. NEW TESTAMENT. THE NEW TESTAMENT reprinted according to the authorized version 1611. London: Nonesuch Press 1927. 4to. boards gilt; untrimmed unopened. Sun slight soil to boards; touch of age-browning to page edges. Mild wear to heel and crown. Very good. New Testament only. unknown books
182126512Novi-Eboraci: Typis et impensis Georgii Long 1821. 1st thus American Imprints 4689. Leusden's edition first published 1675 with the first US publication not until 1806 cf. Simms. BIBLE IN AMERICA pp. 138-39. This then according to Simms' chronology actually the 2nd US of Leusden's edition. Period tan sheep boards with modern rebacking to style with original black leather title label relaid onto spine. Overall VG. viii 699 pp. Text double column with Greek text printed in Greek alphabet. Greek title romanized. Bound in 6s. 5-11/16" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>Leusden determined that the vocabulary of the Greek Testament amounted to 4956 words of which 1686 occured only once; and that 1900 selected verses contained the whole number which were so designated in earlier editions cf. Darlow & Moule 4717n. Typis et impensis Georgii Long hardcover books
1786019793Londini London: Ex Prelo Joannis Nichols Typis Jacksonianis 1786. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ii x ii xxxii 264 89 i blank. Complete with half-title and 3-leaf subscribers' list and one leaf containing a full-page engraving. Contains facsimile text in Alexandrian Greek type cut by Joseph Jackson. Contains minor scattered foxing on several pages near the beginning of the text and to the final few leaves of text. Previous owner's name stamped in upper margin of title page and again stamped much smaller on the following page. Contemporary decorated calf boards with some scratching peeling and wear refurbished; rebacked in leather with raised bands and a new gilt-stamped spine label. New endpapers retaining two original endpapers at the rear. The first three leaves were professionally and archivally light-bleached which removed most of the foxing. The first edition of the New Testament as preserved in the Codex Alexandrinus printed using a typeface that skilfully reproduced the appearance of the fifth-century original. The text is clean and unmarked. Folio: measures 18.5" x 11.75" 472mm x 297mm. Ex Prelo Joannis Nichols, Typis Jacksonianis Hardcover books
179141520United States of America i.e. Worcester Mass.: Pr. at the press in Worcester Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas 1791. Folio extra 400 mm; 16". New Testament ONLY. 1 f. pp. 7891012; 19 plts. <br><br>Present here is the extracted New Testament from => the first folio Bible printed in America from the press of the printer whom Ben Franklin called the "Baskerville of America." Being also only the fourth complete Protestant Bible in English printed in the former British colonies its text is the standard King James version printed in double-column format in roman type; and Thomas's production is famous for its typography its achievement in size the pages are 15.5" tall and especially its illustrations. The plates 19 of them were engraved by four of America's greatest artisans: J. Norman Alexander Doolittle Joseph H. Seymour and Samuel Hill.<br>Â Â Â Â "An alphabetical table of proper names" was planned but not printed as indicated by the catchword on the final page; the table does appear in the quarto edition Thomas printed the same year. This volume does contain at its end the whole Bible's "Index to the Holy Bible" and its several "tables" of Weights Measures and Coins; Time; Offices and Conditions of Men; and Kindred and Affinity. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 29; O'Callaghan 38; Herbert 1353; Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles 171; Evans 23186 Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 7488. 18th-century mottled calf nicely rebacked with edges of boards renewed and text block resewn. Old waterstaining from light to severe throughout extending across text and image areas of plates with very variable impact; age-toning occasional staining and off-setting from plates in only the usual degrees. Lower margins display some notable chips and purposeful paper tear-aways and a good many closed tears; only the latter reach sometimes into text without loss. Several plates have had closed tears neatly repaired from the rear; the plate of Mary Magdalen and the final leaf of the last Table show OLD replacement of paper where original paper was torn away from blank areas; the copy retains the old dog-earings and page-creasings of long use and bears pencillings on its final leaf. => A copy that has seen much happen to it over its more than 200 years of existence; still a sturdy interesting and imposing copy of this impressive early American New Testament. Pr. at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Isaiah Thomas hardcover books