The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29

are the plaoemakers, for they shall be called
the children Of God
The Bishops Bible, sometimes called
the Treaole Bible, was printed in 1858. II
got the latter name because in II jeremiah
viii, %, read as follows; is there no tryacle
in Gilead'' instead Of balm as in the
present version.
1t was called the Bishops Bible because
Matthew Parker. Archbishop OF Canter-
bury, with the assistance Of eight Bishops,
revised the Great Bible and produced this
version. II is also called the Leda Bible
because one Of q series Of capital letters,
designed after Ovid, was used by the
printer, Richard Jugge, In this az well az
in other books he printed.
The Douai or Resin Bible Ia Of especial
significance because ii was the iBt Roman
Catholic version Of the Scriptures printed
In English. The translation was made
about the year 1880 by some English e1ilea
at Douai 10 combat the various Protestant
versions, but II was not printed until l0O9
at the signe Of the hole Lambe' in Douai. 4
The college for the edu cation Of British
Roman Catholics, where the translation
was hAudot bAhl NAAhNh III THO OIu MAlou
French town, The version was dedicated
TO the right well beloved English Reader"
IL was called the Rosin Bible because il
contained the word 'rosin" in place Of
-tryaole' or balm
The King James version, printed in 1911;
was the parent Of hundreds Of subsequent
editions, That being the case IL Is rather
peculiar that there were two separate
issues Of II in the same year and that these
two issues are named by Henry Stevens,
a well known collector and authority, the
Great He Bible and the Great She Bible.
In the former Ruth ill.,, Is, reads: "He
measured six measures Of barley and laid
il on her; and he went into the city The
other says she went into the oity.' These
we're evidently deposited in two different
printing houses as copy, for subsequent
editions go in pairs. There we're scores
OF other differences between the two, and
the descendants Of the He Bible preserve
it's mistakes, while the descendants Of
the She Bible inherit its peouliarties.
The Wicked Bible, also named by Mr.. !
Stevens, was printed in London in 1881 by
Robert Barker, II gets its name because
the very important word mot" was omitted
from the seventh commandment. In spite
Of the fact that Printer Barker declared
that the omission was only a typographical
error Laud fined the unhappy gentleman
E3OO, with which money he is said to have
bought a font Of Greek type for Oxford.
The edition, Of course, was suppressed,
so that copies Of it are extremely rare.
Only four are known. One is in the LenOx
Library, n in the British Museum, one at
the Bodleian at Oxford and one at Glasgow.
Strangely enough there is a copy in the
famous library at Wofenbuttel Of a German
edition printed just a year later than the
suppressed English one and containing
the same extraordinary error. There are
a dozen other mistakes on the same sheet,
but hone which makes 80 vital a change
In the reading.
Mr.. Stevens tells another Bible story
which would have appealed 70 the unhappy
Barker. 1t refers 10 Cotton Mather, who
was made by a laundering ~typographer to
exclaim in a Bible printed in l7O2: Printers
have prosecuted me without cause The
real reading being psalm oxiI., 1911: "Prin-
prosecuted me without cause
In 1888 a folio Bible was printed at Cam
bridge that is probably the finest ever
published there. Yet it contains plenty Of
errors, among them the famous one which
s said 20 have cost Cromwell a bride Of
Gl 900. 1t is in Acts vi, 8: whom ye may
instead Of whom We which
would seem to clear Cromwell.
The Thumb Bible was printed in 1870 in
'Aberdene' by John Forbes. II ia about
one inch square by half an inch thick.
Next come the Loyal Bible and the Repub-
lean Bible. These were a polyglot edition !
at London by Thomas Roycroft in
By Cromwell's permission the paper
vas imported free Of duty andin recognition
honorable mention was made Of him in the
But with the Restoration a change came
,ver the spirit Of this edition. The &C
InoWledgment to Cromwell was withdrawn,
10 was described Hs 'maIimus ilie Uraco-
md a fulsome dedication TO Charles ii.
vas introduced. This is said 10 have been
he first work published in England by sub
cription.'
The Vinegar Bible was printed at Oxford
y J. Basket In 17l6-l7. IL takes its name
rom a headline Of Luke, chapter H.: THE
Of the Vinegar instead Of 'the
.'ineyard."
II was the most sumptuous Of all the
Dxford Bibles, but was 80 full OF mistakes
hat II wal Boon jocularly referred to as
a Baskett-ful Of printers errors" It's
appearance could not save it and
ow II is sought for only by collectors.
In 1899 the King James version (16l1) was
evised by DR.. Blayney. This. commonly
nown az DR.. Blayney's Revisions, wal
dopted as standard by the University Press
t Oxford, and with some notifications is
ill the standard except for the so-caled
version.
The early printers were not the only ones
, make mistakes. An Oxford edition Of
si contains a whole grist Of errors. For
stance, Proverbs xvii, 2: LET another
AN praise thee. and to INSTEAD Of notl
line own mouth John IL, 20: Blessed are
icy that they have not SEEM which is
70 we'll supplied with "theys'; and Jude.
l. these are murderers. instead Of 'mur-
The Oxford edition Of 1904 was especially
,nspicuous for it's typographical errors.
10 Of the most striking being Galatians
, II: "For the flesh lusteth after the spirit
stead Of against the spirit
The edition OF 1905 has become famous
the TO remain Bible It seems that a
.oo0noaJar waa Doubtful about n comma