Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-05-23
THE REVISED BIBLE.
To be Placed on Sale in America
This Month.
Precautions Against Pirates Carefully TAX
en.-Six Styles OF the New Edition, From
Cloth to the Finest Morocco.

The revised English version of the
Old Testament will be placed on sale
over the counters of the various religious
publication societies on the 21st inst, a
trifle more than two years after the issue
of the New Testament. 1t will appear
on the same day in England. j. B. Lip
pincott 4 Co., of Philadelphia, and
Thomas Nelson & Sons. of New York,
are the sole agents for its publication in
America. The books will be sent over
by two steamers, so timed as to arrive in
New York and Philadelphia a week or
ten days before the day of publication,
so as to permit of the cases being shipped
to the large inland cities, such as Chicago
St. Louis and the far West. Such ex.
treme vigilance will be exercised after
their arrival as to render any
attempt to obtain q copy on
the part Of any publisher who may
desire to forestall the English publishers
an utter impossibility. The books for
Philadelphia will be bonded and not
taken out until late on the night previous
to publication. Arrangements have
been made by each of the religious pub
LEGATION societies to have Bibles on their
counters at the opening in the morning
There are six general styles of the re-
vised Bible. The
FIRST AND CHEAPEST
is printed in solid" pearl type, 16mo..
double column, bound in cloth, boards,
and red edges. This is dollar a copy.
The type is exceedingly small. A prom
inent publisher connected with re-
ligious society said, last night: "This is
the cheapest edition that appears, and it
is an outrage that book so many will
want to read and which costs such a
comparatively high price when compar-
ed with the the cheap edition of the
authorized version) is printed in such
abominably small type" The same
edition in different styles of binding
/. is catalogued as high as $3.50; the latter
being styled, "Levant, divinity circuit;
silk sewed, calf lined, gilt edged" The
next cheapest edition is 50, printed in
minion type, five denny Svo., with sim
liar binding to the dollar clifton. The
PRINT is trifie larger than the first
edition of the revised New Testament.
The Lsvant divinity circut- gilt-silk- calf
attachments will augment the price of
this style Sll. A small plea edition is
the third style and is worth Sc 90. In
Turkey morocco and gilt it will cost Sl4.
A parallel edition in minion type, folded
crown 4to.," the authorized version
occupying the left hand column and the
revised the right, is placed at IS, and SIS
in Turkey gilt. This list comprises all
the single volume editions. Another
edition,
IN FIVE VOLUMES,
plea type, folded DENY Svo., with a
medium sized margin, is priced al SIS 80
to SS5. The same style, with wide mar
gins for notes, is $50 when bound in cloth
beveled boards, with red edges, and
$50 80 when in Turkey morocco, gilt
edges. Both the Cambridge and Oxford
presses are supplying the books. The
plates each college use in printing The N
are cast from the same type; the typo
graphical appearance will therefore be !
identical, asthe most artistic pressmen |
are employed by each. The feeling of
rivalry between the two colleges is very
and las led to a double set /
If agents. J.B. L;ppincott & Co. plblsh
n this country the Cambridge edition,
While Thomas Nelson & Sons, of New
York, will perform the same Offices for
he Oxford. As both editions are PRINT
d from the same plates, it would be