Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-11
SOME CURIOUS BIBLES.
Volumes OF Sacred Writ That Are
valued Only Fer Their EEisprints.

The interest prevailing just at this time
! IN the 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 of the bible, says the
New York Herald, have become famous
for curious misprints. There is, for in
stance, the ''Placemakers' bible. u
BLESSED are the placemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God"-
Matt ", Sis an extraordinary misprint
occurring in the second edition of the
Geneva bible, published in Geneva in TO
lilo form in 1852. The mistake was
soon discovered and corrected, and never
occurred again. Then there is the ''Vin-
egar" bible "The parable of the vine
gar" instead of ''the parable Of the vine
yard" appears in the chapter-heading to
Luke Xxx, in an Oxford edition of the
authorized version which was published
by j. Basket in imperial folio, and is said
to be 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, unfortu-
nately, the proofs were carelessly read,
and the book printed by Basket was
called "a basketful of printers errors. "
The book is now highly priced on account
OF its typographical faults.
There is also the "Wicked bible" in ex-
istence. This extraordinary name has
been given to an edition of the author
lied bible printed in London by Robert
Barker and Martin Lucas in 1851. The
negative was left out of the seventh COM
mandment, and William Kilburn, writ
ing in 1859, says that, owing to the zeal
of DR.. Usher, the printer was fined $4,000
or $4,000 In Laud's published works
there is a copy of the kings letter direct
ing that the printer be fined $4,000, but
DR.. Scrivener asserts, without giving an
authority, that the real fine was one Of
e300, inflicted by Archbishop Laud, "to
be expended on font of fair Greek type"
Only four copies of this scarce bible are
now known to exist, as the edition was
destroyed and the copies called in as
soon as the mistake was discovered. DR..
Scriv9ner declared that copy existed at
WolfenDuttel This led to search being
made No such English bible was dis
covered, but German with the very
same mistake was found in its stead.
There is also the Prosecuting Print
ers' bible" princes have prosecuted
me without cause" Psalms cxix., has
the word printers" used instead OF
'rinces," and has given occasion for
lis name. Ali that is known of this ed
ition is stated by Mr.. Henry Stevens, in
the catalogue of the CaXton exhibition of
bibles, where he says that these words
were put into the mouth of Cotton Mather
by laundering typographer in bible
printed before 1902.
There is also the "Ears to Ear bible"
"Who has ears to ear let him hear
Matthew xii, 43. This adoption of Lon
don cockney is found in an octave bible
published by the Oxford press in 1910.
The same book contains a more serious
blunder in Hebrews tx, IA: "How much
more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, purge your conscl-
ence from good works to serve the living
God"
Among others may be noted the
Standing Fishes Bible" ''And it shall
come to pass that the fishes shall stand
upon it." etc.-Ezekiel xvii, 10. The
word fishes is used for fishers in a quarto
bible printed by the kings printer in Lon
don in1S06 and reprinted in a quarto edi-
ton of1S13 and an octave edition of 1928.
There is also the Brooches bible,"
which, like the other is out of print.
"And the eyes OF Adam and Eve were
opened, and they knew that they were
naked and they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves breeches"-Gene-
sis Ill, Z. The word ''breeches'' was
put in the text in place of ''aprons." 1t
is found in quarto bible printed in Lon
don by Robert Barker in the early part OF
the seventeenth century.