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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... leaves of the forest , devouring them with a relish , but seldom looking up to see whence they came , what their origin , or how preserved for us . The subject of Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition , as a distinct Class , was really an ...
... leaves of the forest , devouring them with a relish , but seldom looking up to see whence they came , what their origin , or how preserved for us . The subject of Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition , as a distinct Class , was really an ...
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... leaves , 95 it is seldom that the two issues are found se- parate . 96 Sheets from one were constantly 97 mixed with sheets from the other ; and any attempt to say that one set of sheets belongs wholly to the first issue and another to ...
... leaves , 95 it is seldom that the two issues are found se- parate . 96 Sheets from one were constantly 97 mixed with sheets from the other ; and any attempt to say that one set of sheets belongs wholly to the first issue and another to ...
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... leaves , the counterfoil of the title , in this respect also unique . The map and the other preliminary leaves are in facsimile by the elder John Harris . The only other copy known with even a part of the original title - page is that ...
... leaves , the counterfoil of the title , in this respect also unique . The map and the other preliminary leaves are in facsimile by the elder John Harris . The only other copy known with even a part of the original title - page is that ...
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... leaf out of his note - book , for a distressing and damaging hiatus ap- pears here in the most important part of his biblical disquisition . Not- withstanding his words ' next " in interest after these , ' before coming to the ' Great ...
... leaf out of his note - book , for a distressing and damaging hiatus ap- pears here in the most important part of his biblical disquisition . Not- withstanding his words ' next " in interest after these , ' before coming to the ' Great ...
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... leaves of other editions mixed . Mr Francis Fry's elaborate book on these nine editions is the best and surest guide . The wood - cut first title - page has generally hitherto been ascribed to Holbein , but Wornum in his life of Holbein ...
... leaves of other editions mixed . Mr Francis Fry's elaborate book on these nine editions is the best and surest guide . The wood - cut first title - page has generally hitherto been ascribed to Holbein , but Wornum in his life of Holbein ...
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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.