The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
The Revised Old Testament.
[From the New York Timesl

From the New York Timesl
The revision OF the Old Testament
has been completed, and on May q
the new revision will be issued sim
ultaneously in London. New York
anu Philadelphia. This version is the
joint property of the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, and each uni
Versity will issue its own edition, al
though both will be printed from
plates made from one set of types.
For the American trade Thomas Mel
son q Sons, of No. AZ Blocker street,
New York, will control the Oxford
Bible, and Lippincott, of Philadel-
phla, will act as agents for Cambridge.
The Harpers, of this city, will also
have an edition of the Cambridge Old
Testament, which will correspond
with their own reprint of the revised
New Testament published threeyea
ago. They will have only one style,
in plea type, and in four octave vol
umes, making five volumes of the
Old and New Testaments. The bind
ing will be in brown cloth, with red
edges, and the four volumes will be
sold for $40. The Nelson's will offer
a Variety of styles On the day of issue,
and copy of the complete Bible,
printed in pearl type and hound in
cloth, may be had for 81, or the pur-
chaser of luxurious taste may secure
royal octave edition in five vol
umes, printed in plea type and bound
in Turkey morocco boards, with gilt
edges, for $3.50. There are to be in
all six editions and twenty-three
styles of binding. The parallel
Bible"-the authorized version ar.
ranged in parallel columns with the
revised version-will doubtless suit
the scholar who desires to make a
close comparison. 1t is to be crown
quartO edition. printed in miniOn
type, and, as to price, IS will secure
the book IN cloth boards, S14 a Per-
sian morocco binding, and SlS cover
of Turkey morocco.
The interest of the public and even
of the booksellers in the publication
of the revised Old Testament appears
thus far to be of rather quiet sort,
and such excitement as attended the
issue Of the New Testament three
years ago is not anticipated. The
Harpers, however, state that there is
a fair demand for the new Bible, and
the Nelson's report that they have re-
ceived greater number of orders
than they had obtained for the New
Testament, at about the same period
prior to publication, although the ag-
gregate quantity ordered is somewhat
less. 1t is said, too, that the univer-
stiles have printed a much larger
number of Bibles than that at first
supposed to be sufficient to meet the
demand.
AS to comparison Of the old and
new version Of the Old Testament,
nothing can be said at present, as the
translatorS keep their own counsel
Every precaution has been taken to
prevent a premature issue of the
work, and to prevent stray copies
from getting out before the day of de-
livery. 1t is asserted that the two
universities and the three American
houses who are to act as agents are
working in perfect harmony in the
matter, in proof of which the fact that
the Oxford and Cambridge Bibles are
printed from the same set of types is
mentioned. Ali the editions to be
offered in America are imported from
England i'll the completed state, no
sheets even having been sent forward
for binding. Whatever arrangements
may have been made for reprinting
must await the issue of the English
work in the prescribed form.