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ESTABLISHED Is
ofthe printer on the title-page. Mr.
Peter Cooper and Prof. j. A. Weisse
are said opossess copies. which. are rare
and valuable. The Messrs. Leavitt also
show a copy of one of the first printed
leiitions zthassScriptures.E which was
Ipublished in Latin at Nuremberg bv
Anthony Ceberger ine1475. The cap
itals are illuminated by hand. The
volumsa bound ir1s zvellunn =son oalr
panels, the covering stamped with relig-
ious designs It was Bought at Frank
fort last summer. There are copies in
America of Beza's Geneva Bible (1660),
! the first printed in Roman characters
instead of in black letter. 1t is curious
to note that the first book ever stereo-
typed was the New Testament in Syriac,
and that the first book published BY
subscription was a Polyglot Bible in six
volumes, edited by j. Walton. and dated
London, 165z-a a - - em 4Ra5
y OriginA copies OF the King James
version are ,occasio onall y sold IN AmeTloa
Mr.. John tSarter Brown. Of Proyidence,
n. L., purchased for e4O at Sir WiIliafn
IIte's sale in London in 1874 anSmpers
fssf {a5r<a<al p a. . -
the EtntattSch. AT the same sac
| erdale's = 1snglish Translation of the
Holy Scriptures in black letter, sold
for ESQ, and a Breeches Bible broughti
| f27. Mr.. Brown, was formerly iproprl-
etor of the four great national Polyglot
Bibles--the Complutensiany I514-f7h
the Paris, RelNglot (ten folio. volumes,
large paper edition. /, the Antwerp Poly
glot. (six volslnIes) sand Walton,s Poly,
glot, with q Castells Lexicon (eight
volumes folio)- An interesting work q
| photographers is the Great or CrOm-
well's 5 Bible, which ybears the arms 7Qf
Thomas. lord Cromwell, on tire tide.
page kIt was begun by Grafton and
1 WhitchurchipP Paris in l52S and tinished'
in London in 1882 The titles were de-
signsd by Hans Holbein Imperfect
copies onlylof the blacl1-letter edition Of
Tyndall and Coverdale's Dutch and
Latin Translation. printed in double coli
umns, with wood-cuts by Hans. Gebaldi
Behapi, are in existencein America "A
moderately good specinen is valued at
from $3.50 to $1,000.
Fabulous prices are on occasion paid
for scarce books. The highest sum re-
corded as having been given for a Bible
was that paid for a ''Mazarinn copy at
the Perkins sale in London in 1S73-.
Is, 400. Two leaves were IN fac simile.
Mr.. Perkins had bought it in 1926 for
f564. The highest figure ever realized
in America was for two-volume copy
of the same edition, which Messrs.l
8 n.
Hamilton Cole, an amateur collector,
was the purchaser For the Sykes copy
of the same book e., $50 was paid In
brary. The Mazarin Bible IN the Bib
liotheque Rationale of Paris is the most
valuable copy of the Scriptures in the
world This vefsion is called also the
E.tGuttenberg, having been the first
printed with movable types. It is printed
in double columns in two volumes. De
Brue, the great French. photographer,
discovered it in the library of Cardinal
Mazarin, whose name the edition has
since bore. There are only eleven
copies known to exist, and none of these
is perfect. At the Menzies sale in New
York, S15. so was paid for two leaves of
Faust & Shaeffer's 1472 version.
An industry which is prosecuted with
success and has received great impetus
of late years is the purchase of biblical
and other works for the sake of their
plates, the books being torn up and their
cuts used for illustrating valuable copies
of the Bible. The idea NAV be said to
have been first carried into effect in the
publication of Granger's History of
England" in 1924, of which work
twenty sets were struck off on Atlas
paper. space being left for the insertion
of illustrations Old Bibles, which are
not rare, derive their value from the use
to which their plates may be put. Mr.
Wright, from the firm of John Wiley's
Sons, has constructed some valuable
books in this manner The famous stem
thousand dollar Bible contains about
10000 illustrations, most of.which have
been inserted A London bookseller
named Brown spent about thirty years
of his life in collecting engrayings for
this book from all conceiYable sources.
1t is Kitto (l837) Bible, chosen on
account of possessing a greater number
of illustrations than any other Bible
Mr.. j. w. Bouton, the New York book
seller, valued it at $40, ZOO, some years
ago. 1t is now in private library at
Oswego, n. Y. tFs
Manuscript Bibles are valued at much
higher prices generally than most of the
early printed editions. A rare volume
is the .Biblia Pauperum," written and
illuminated by hand, of which there were
i've editions of some twenty volumes
Issued. 1t receives its name from the
tae of its having been the only copy of
hss Scriptures within the reach of poor
peSs,le- The few copies now extant are
in very bad condition, but are worth
thousands of dollars each. Temperley
accounts for the destruction of this book
by the great wear and tear TO which it
was subjectedA A reprinted copy by
John Russell Smith, ofEondon. brought
80 so at the Menzies sale. A copy of
German manaiscript missal of about
1850 as in possessioi1 of ~ Iessrs- Wiley
Vellum is the material used and the il
Nominations are superb The volume u
a huge folio, its covers being of ver'
sthick leather bound in brass and studded
with immense brass bosses The missaIs
of the date of the Introduction of print
ing offer a curious commentary on human
nature-t Spurious works, without mum
Der were issued from the press, illumi-
mated and touched by hand so as to rep
resent closely the manuscript volume
Mr.. Sotheran possesses a missal of this
description printed IN Paris about the
year 1850 by German Hardouin, who is
said to have Fproducedsa number of such
forgeries. n. Y. World. e.
The New Mozart.
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