The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, MDCCCLXXVII, Or, A Bibliographical Description of Nearly One Thousand Representative Bibles: In Various Languages, Chronologically Arranged from the First Bible Printed by Gutenberg in 1450-1456 to the Last Bible Printed at the Oxford University Press the 30th June 1877 |
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... Scriptures as described by me in the Catalogue , I have pleasure in reproducing it here verbatim and entire , simply adding a few small figures for convenience of reference in the subsequent pages of this Flavour . From the SATURDAY ...
... Scriptures as described by me in the Catalogue , I have pleasure in reproducing it here verbatim and entire , simply adding a few small figures for convenience of reference in the subsequent pages of this Flavour . From the SATURDAY ...
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... Scripture in English it would not , of course , have been licensed in 1532 , but in 1538 or 1539 , as the language is modern and good , there would then have been no difficulty about the translation . The word not is uniformly spelled ...
... Scripture in English it would not , of course , have been licensed in 1532 , but in 1538 or 1539 , as the language is modern and good , there would then have been no difficulty about the translation . The word not is uniformly spelled ...
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... Scriptures , such as the fall of Wolsey , the divorce of Catharine of Aragon , the separation from Rome , the Royal ... Scripture should have the sanction or licence of the King , the Privy Council or a bishop , which threw the whole ...
... Scriptures , such as the fall of Wolsey , the divorce of Catharine of Aragon , the separation from Rome , the Royal ... Scripture should have the sanction or licence of the King , the Privy Council or a bishop , which threw the whole ...
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... SCRIPTURES is the sacred history of PRINTING . The Bible was the first book printed , and the Bible is the last book printed . Between 1450 and 1877 , an interval of four centuries and a quarter , the Bible shows the progress and ...
... SCRIPTURES is the sacred history of PRINTING . The Bible was the first book printed , and the Bible is the last book printed . Between 1450 and 1877 , an interval of four centuries and a quarter , the Bible shows the progress and ...
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... Scriptures in one country or language ranged with those of another . We see , for instance , that all the earliest printed Bibles were in the Latin Vulgate , the first complete edition of the Septuagint not having been issued from the ...
... Scriptures in one country or language ranged with those of another . We see , for instance , that all the earliest printed Bibles were in the Latin Vulgate , the first complete edition of the Septuagint not having been issued from the ...
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Page 104 - IMPRINTED AT LONDON by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1599.
Page 111 - Imprinted at London by Robert \ Barker Printer to the Kings \ most Excellent Maiestie.
Page 71 - Biblia §+. / The Byble : that/ is, the holy Scrypture of the/ Olde and New Testament,/ faythfully translated in/to Englyshe./ MD xxxvi./ S.
Page 22 - There are no children, and therefore the poetic expression ' for children of course could not be expected to cheer in Latin """ is a stroke of the imagination worthy the palmy days of the Saturday Review. Lest our Scholastikos may attempt to shield himself at the expense of confessing that he had savoyed this whole account of the ' Great Bible' from a contemporary historian, even to the pretty fiction about the children cheering in Latin, I venture to give him the friendly advice that he had better...
Page 107 - DOUAY BIBLE." 1609. The | Holie Bible | Faithfvlly Trans- | lated into English, | Ovt Of The Avthentical | Latin. | Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, | and other Editions in diuers languages. | With Argvments of the Bookes, and Chapters : | Annotations : Tables : and other helpes, | for better vnderstanding of the text : for discouerie of | Corrvptions in some late translations : and | for clearing Controversies in Religion.
Page 120 - The/ Holy Bible/ Containing the/ Old Testament/ and the New./ Newly Translated out of the Ori/ginall Tongues, and with the former/ Translations diligently compared/ and reuised : by his Maiesties/ speciall Commandement./ Appointed to be read in Churches...
Page 114 - The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament And The New : Newly translated out of the Original Tongues : and with the former translations diligently compared and revised: By his Majesties speciall commandment, ^f Appointed to be read in churches.
Page 117 - The/ Whole/ Booke of Psalmes/ Faithfully/ Translated into English/ Metre./ Whereunto is prefixed a discourse de-/claring not only the lawfullnes, but also/ the necessity of the Heavenly Ordinance/ of singing Scripture Psalmes in/ the Churches of/ God./ Coll.
Page 126 - Majesty's special Command. Appointed to be read in churches. Edinburgh : James Watson, 1722. Folio. Lent by the Signet Library, Edinburgh. This is a choice copy, on large paper, of perhaps the finest Book ever printed in Scotland. 1224. BIBLE (English). London: John Baskett, T. Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1723. Folio. Lent by Henry J. Atkinson, Esq. 1225. BIBLE (French). Basle: Jan HofF, 1724. 8vo. Lent by Henry J. Atkinson, Esq. 1226. NEW Testament (English). London: J. Baskett and H. Hills, 1725....
Page 117 - He shall be like a tree that grows Near planted by a river, Which in his season yields his fruit And his leaf fadeth never; And all he doth shall prosper well.