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First Edition of the First Folio Bible Printed in America, Also the First Illustrated Bible Printed in America [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Christian's New and Complete Family Bible:. or, the Universal Library of Divine Knowledge: Being a Clear, full and comprehensive Exposition and Commentary of the Holy Scriptures, Containing the Sacred Texts of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at Large; Illustrated with Annotations and Commentaries.By Those Eminent Divines, Henry Doddridge, Gill, Brown, &c. &c. Philadelphia: Printed for the Proprietors; and Sold by all the Booksellers in the United States, 1788- [1790]. First edition of the first folio Bible printed in America, also the first illustrated Bible printed in America. Folio (16 5/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 415 x 255 mm). [A]², B-9O², A-2I², [A]², B-3H². Also contains a duplicate set of signatures 5I-5N2 not included in collation. 2H missigned '2G' and 2K missigned '2L' in New Testament, same as Hills bibliography. Illustrated with twenty-eight engraved plates. Original American calf, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Bible complete with 28 plates and 570 leaves. Our general title is not a cancel unlike the Library Company of Philadelphia's copies. Although some of the plates are signed London, they were probably brought to America to be printed there. With some staining and browning throughout. Professional restoration to the frontispiece, title-page of the Old Testament and"To the Christian Reader." Plates II, III, IV, V, VI, IX, XIII, XX, XXI, XXIII, XXIV, and XXVI all with some professional restoration. Many leaves with small closed tears and corners with professional repairs. Over all very good. There has been some controversy as to whether all, none or only some of the sheets were printed in America. In a correspondence with James Green from the Library Company of Philadelphia, he indicates that they have three variant copies of this bible, all with the Berwick New Testament as follows: 1. Main title-page with Berwick imprint, with no cancel title and no date, printed on English paper and sold by the booksellers of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow. 2. Main title-page with Berwick imprint, has canceled title and sold by the booksellers of Edinburgh and London, 1788. And A-P and another copy with A-Rr on American paper. In the Library Company of Philadelphia copies "A minimum of the first eight parts were printed in America" * Only in some copies. "Other copies have different setting of type, printed on English paper." 3. Main title-page with Philadelphia imprint has canceled title and printed on English paper. The first announcement of the Bible appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser for November 15, 1788. The advertisement stated, This day is published by W. Woodhouse, Bookseller, Front-Street, next door to the Coffee House [Price Eleven Pence.] Number I. (To be returned if not approved of) Of The Christian's New and Complete Family Bible…The whole shall be comprised in seventy-five numbers, at one eighth of a dollar each. A number shall be delivered every Saturday Morning… Number I will be published on Saturday Nov. 15. With which will be given an elegant Frontispiece-And subsequent numbers regularly every week until the work is completed… The next announcement was on January 3, 1789 This day published…Number Eight… If on January 3rd Woodhouse had all eight parts printed, he would have tried to sell all eight parts at once. To commit to a new part each Saturday must indicate that he was printing a new part every week. It takes seven weeks to travel under the best conditions and eight to twelve weeks in unfavorable winds between England and Philadelphia. (Mittelberger, G. Journey to Pennsylvania. Harvard University Press, 1960). Full description upon request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1616704735683
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