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
Contributors: Seymour, Joseph H., engraver; Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver; Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver; Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, printer; Andrews, Ebenezer Turrell, 1766-1851, bookseller; Barnard, James M., former owner; Billings, L. Z.,  former owner
Publisher: Printed at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts 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
Language: eng
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.

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

Some copies bound in two volumes. Issued in three styles: with 2 copperplates; with 2 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 48 plates and the concordance (89, [3] p.).

Signatures: [superscript pi]Áþ A-5Úþ 5Ẃþ 5X-8Áþ (8A4 blank).

Gatherings of the second and subsequent alphabets of main sequence are numbered sequentially: 25A, 26B, etc., through 164A.

Printed in two columns.

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

Evans, C. American bibliography, 23185

Hills, M.T. English Bible in America, 30

English Short Title Catalogue, W4494

Cataloged 20151022 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early 20th-century tan buckram. The BPL gift bookplate of James M. Barnard is present on the front pastedown. The embossed stamp of the BPL is present on leaves  [superscript pi]A2- [superscript pi]A3. The autograph of L.Z.[?] Billings is present on the verso of the Old Testament title page. The final, blank leaf (8A4) is wanting.