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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... WHICH ENGLISHMEN & AMERICANS MUST EVER REGARD AS THE CRADLE OF THEIR COVERDALE BIBLE THIS VOLUME IS APPROPRIATELY INSCRIBED BY HENRY STEVENS of Vermont M90973 Extract from Het Leven van Emanuel van Meteren kortelijck befchreven.
... WHICH ENGLISHMEN & AMERICANS MUST EVER REGARD AS THE CRADLE OF THEIR COVERDALE BIBLE THIS VOLUME IS APPROPRIATELY INSCRIBED BY HENRY STEVENS of Vermont M90973 Extract from Het Leven van Emanuel van Meteren kortelijck befchreven.
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... volume . I submit that this arrangement between us was a happy thought , as it gave the historian two distinct views instead of one . Each system has unquestionably its own objections , but these melt away when both are used . It is a ...
... volume . I submit that this arrangement between us was a happy thought , as it gave the historian two distinct views instead of one . Each system has unquestionably its own objections , but these melt away when both are used . It is a ...
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... volumes were placed in the cases unopened , no other safe place pre- senting itself . Well , some painfully orderly eyes could not stand this mixture , while others found consolation in the Catalogue . Each book being distinct and fully ...
... volumes were placed in the cases unopened , no other safe place pre- senting itself . Well , some painfully orderly eyes could not stand this mixture , while others found consolation in the Catalogue . Each book being distinct and fully ...
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... volume . The collations of the rarer Bibles in many languages are elaborate , and I trust generally correct and carefully done . They cost me a vast amount of labour , and I flatter myself that true bibliographers will find them useful ...
... volume . The collations of the rarer Bibles in many languages are elaborate , and I trust generally correct and carefully done . They cost me a vast amount of labour , and I flatter myself that true bibliographers will find them useful ...
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... volume of any importance 104 - the Bodleian copy of the famous Bible of 16311 105 -an octavo in which the " not " was omitted from the Seventh Commandment . 106 We failed to find a first Oxford 107 Testament , a first Cambridge 108 ...
... volume of any importance 104 - the Bodleian copy of the famous Bible of 16311 105 -an octavo in which the " not " was omitted from the Seventh Commandment . 106 We failed to find a first Oxford 107 Testament , a first Cambridge 108 ...
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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.