Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-23
BIBLES, OLD AND NEW.
SOME OF THE ECCESTRfCfTIEs or
THE RARE EDITIONS.
Tho "Place Makers" and "lsrceches Edition. ,
An Awful Omission Of An Important Mega
tive-The "Persecuting Printers" Bible.
Some Rare Freaks in Book Making.

The interest prevailing just at this time in
tho subject OF Biblical accuracy will render
interesting some facts regarding curious
Bibles which have appeared since 1911, when
King James version was first published.
Several issues ofthe Bible have become "a
nous for curious misprints. There is, for
instance, tho ,."Place Makers Bible"
Blessed arc the place Makers for they shall |
be called the children Of God"-Matt v. o. |
Is an extraordinary misprint occurring in the |
second edition Of the Geneva Bible, publish |
cd in Geneva in folio form in l56I-2 The
mistake was soon discovered and corrected,
and never occurred again. Then there is the
Vinegar" Bible. "The parable of the
vinegar, instead of " parable of the vinegar
yard" appears in tho chapter heading to
Luke Xxx, In an Oxford edition of the author
thorized version which was published in
l717. The book was published by j. Basket,
In imperial folio, and is said to he the most
elaborate and sumptuous of all the Oxford
Bibles The printing Is very beautiful, and
some of the copies were printed on vellum
but, unfortunately, the proofs were carelcssly
read, and the book printed by Basket was
called :" basketlul Of printers errors The
book is now highly priced on account OF its
| typographical faults.
There is also the Wicked Bible " in ex-
is. ice. This extraordinary name has been
| gwen to an edition of tho authorized Bible,
i
M"rtin Lucas i'm 1851. The negative was left
out Of the seventh commandent, and Will
liam Kiiburn, writing in 1859, says that
owing to tho zeal of DR.. Usher the printer
was fined f2,000 or f3,O00. In Laud's pub
lished works there is copy of the kings
letter directing that tho printers be fined
$4,000, but DIR. Scrivener asserts, without
giving an authority, that tho real iino was
| "to be expended on a font of fair Greek type"
Only four copies of this scarce Bible are now
known to exist, AZ the edition was destroyed
and the copies called in as soon rs the mis-
take was discovered. DIR. Scnyener declared
that copy existed at Wolienbuttel. This
| led TO "A search being made. No such Eng
lsh Bible was discovered, but German
Bible with the very same mistake was found
, There is also tho ''Persecutng Printers
. Bible" "Printers have persecutoI ms with
out cause" Psalms, cxix (; has the word
0 printers instead of ". .nnces" and has given
this edition Is stated by Mr.. Henry Stevens
l in the catalogue Of the Caxton exhibition %
1 Bibles, where he says that these words were
. | PIT mso the mouth of Cotton Nlather by
= 5lundering typographer in Bible printed
h before l702.
There is also the " Ears 10 Ear Bible
"Who has ears to ear let him ear"-Matthev
o xii, l3. This adaptation of London cockneN
o Is found in an octave Bible published by th
u | Oxford press in 1910. The same book con
y | tains more serious blunder Hebrews tx, II
q 'liow much more shall the blood Of Christ
whothrough the eternal spirit offered him
Z | self without spot to God, purge your con
&c science from good works to serve the livn
| God"
le Among others may be noted tho "Stant
n ing Fishes Bible" "And it shall come I
p pass that the fishes shall stand upon it," 81
ii Ezekiel xvii, TO- The word fishes is use
le for fishers i'm a quarto Bible printed by tn
:, Kings printer in London in 1906 aud n
~ printed IN a quarto edition OF 1913 and in a
r. octave edition Of ls2}
"a There is also the Z" Breeches Bible" whidl
" like the other, is out of print, Sand u
eyes of Adam and Eve were opened, All
they knew that they were naked, and the
sewed fig leaves together and made then
Va selves breeches'--Genesis, iii, z. The wor
"breeches" was put in the text in place
I'll "aprons." 1t IL found i'm quarto Bib
r. printed in London, by Robert Parker, in Il
~, early part of the seventeenth century.