The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-15
QUEER BIBLE MIsPRINrs.
Editions That We're Destroyed on Ac-
count of Printers Blunders

count of Printers Blunders.
From the american Art Printer.
OF all the mistakes in this world, a mis-
print is the most iudelible. A false step
may be taken-memory may prove treach-
erous; all sorts of moral mishaps may
chance; but these things are retrievable or
may be corrected. There is always room
for the exercise of greater discretion. But
a misprint is a fixture that cannot be re-
moved. The book that contains it goes
forth to the uttermost parts Of the earth its
track is lost, still it's existence is beyond a
doubt. You try to call ia the present
edition-and fail; and you fail for the
simple reason that "book worms" are
on the alert and secure the copies, on which
they place an additional value beyond the
cost prioe-iB is so pleasant to think that an
authors reputation is at their mercy. To
print list of errata is. in most cases, only to
advertise your misfortunes most conspic-
uously. II you satisfy the public that the
mistake was not yours, but another's-a re-
suit by no means certain-you can never
shut your eyes 60 the fact that the disfigure-
ment will last as long as the paper upon
which it is imprinted. Hence your implaca~
bility against the printer.
In no work that has been printed since
the invention of art has there been 50 many
misprints perpetrated as in the Bible
Pope Sextus V. caused an edition of the
"Vulgate" to be published in Rome in 1900,
every proof of which he had carefully corr
rooted himself; and at the end of the vol
ume he affixed a bull, by which he exoom-
municated any one who should attempt to
make an alteration in the text This book
caused
GREAT DEAL OF ABATEMENT
for the Bible was found 30 be full Of mis-
fQKAas and ip
obliged to suppress the edition. A copy Of
it is great rarity, and. of course, fetches a
high price. Brunei, In his Manuel du
LtbrGrte, says that a very large paper copy
was disposed of 40 the sale of Cadmus de
Limare, for 1910 francs. Tho English
Bible contains several remarkable misprints.
In the edition Of 1884, at the twelfth Psalm,
1.-THE fool hath said in his heart there il
| God" instead OF "there is no God" This
edition was suppressed by order of
the king. In another London edition
| (quarto 1853 we read "In order that
ell the world shall5 perceive the
means of arriving at worldly riches" in
stead Of "godly riches.n Even the edition
of Field, who was printer to tho Univer-
sity of Cambridge, ia the seventeenth
century, is full Of misprints. 1t is said he
received present of 81, 800 from the inde-
pendents TO print rye" for Nv" in the sixth
verse Of the third chapter OF Acts, in order
to make 1t appear that the right Of choosing
their pastors emanated from the people aud
not from the apostles; Wherefore, breth-
rem, look ye out among you seven men of
honest report full Of Holy Ghost and Of
wisdom who ye [wel may appoint over
this business" In the same Bible,
in Corinthians Il. vi. 81, we find: Know
| We not athat the unrighteous shall mot
inherit the kingdom OF God" At the Claren.
don Press, in 1917, a Bible was printed
which was known as the "Vinegar Bible,
on account of the title of st. Luke
Xxx, in which the parable of the vineyard
is printed the parable Of the vinegar.
| To show how dangerous it is to assert lnfal-
! libility while correcting the press. it may be
mentioned that in the "Curiosities Riblio-
| graphiques,n published Paris in lS47, and
from which l have derived several prints
the word Vinegar" is printed vineyard.
THE Omission OF THE NEGATIVE
has occurred more than once in printing
in an edition published in the reign OF
Charles /. and for making 1t the printers
were summoned before the high commission
and fined 93, 200. The omission was o.
served in the thirtyfourth edition of the
! Bible. printed at Halle, which was coufis-
Gated, and is now great biblical rarity
! Ali scrptural mlSprints are not, as we have
dent. There is another on record which be-
trays deep and, may add, a most nefa-
rious design. 1t was the design of the
printers widow, In Germany to upset the
whole system of the domestic economy. A
new edition of the Bible was being printed
in her house, and one night, when all the
| workmen were absent, she arose from her
comfortess bed Ia German bed is never
anything else but comfortless), and pro
ceeded to the printing room, there to tam
per with the type aud falsify text that had
caused her much trouble, Her defunct
better half "a had, without doubt, given
her frequent cause to protest, in her heart
against that sentence of woman's subsection
which is pronounced upon Eve in the third
chapter of Genesis, To rescue her sex
from its false position. she resolved tc
alter the relative situations OF the parties
and, taking out the two first letters oil
the word herr" cunningly replaced then
by ma BY this means the decree ran
Aud be shall be thy (nar,) fool" instead
Of "he shall be thy herr lord" This sub.
stitution though submitted To in domestic
lfe-as, perhaps, was the case-was no
suffered to pass by those who were in au
thority without punishment, and the widow
was burned for heresv. Some copies Of thi
edition are said to have been secreted, anC
are, possibly, to be found in the private
Libraries Of few Strong-minde1 women.