The Holy Bible
Subtitle: containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha
By: translated out of the original tongues, with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England. ; With marginal notes and references. ; To which are added, an index, and an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 23185
Publisher: by Isaiah Thomas. sold by him in Worcester; and by him and Company, at Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street, Boston.
Published: 1791
Place of publication: United States of America. Printed at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 1310
Work titles: Bible English Authorized 1791
Notes: The Old (p. 7-1014) and New (p. 1017-1276) Testaments have separate title pages.

Some copies bound in two volumes. Issued in three styles: with 2 copperplates; with two copperplates and concordance; and with 48 copperplates and concordance "in elegant binding." Cf. Isaiah Thomas's catalogue of English, Scotch, Irish, and American books ... 1801. The present issue has 2 plates and is without concordance.

Fifty plates were prepared for the folio edition published by Thomas in the same year. As the frontispieces (plates I and XXXIII) were too large for the quarto edition, they were omitted and plates XXIX and XLVIII used instead. Plate XXIX unsigned; plate XLVIII signed: J. Seymour.

Signatures: A⁴ A-5U⁴ 5W⁴ 5X-8A⁴ (8A4 blank). Gatherings of the second and subsequent alphabets are numbered sequentially: 25A, 26B ... 164A.

Printed in two columns.

"Family record of marriage, and births of children."--p. [1015]. "Family record of deaths."--p. [1016].

Evans 23185

Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer., 30