The Holy Bible
Subtitle: containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised
Publisher: Printed by Mathew Carey, No. 122, Market-street
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. 1812
Notes: Without the O.T. Apocrypha.

ABS has two copies, both bound in brown leather, plain end papers and edges, water stains, cropped pages; spine broken; poor condition. MS notes inserted in one copy: "Rec. April 18/83 / presented / to the / Library of the American / Bible Society / by / Geo:p. philes / New York / Mdccclxxxiij"; "This edition of the protestant / version of the Bible - was printed, / published, and sold by the Roman / Catholic Bookseller - Mathew Carey"; and on title page verso: "This Bible / is the property of / Ezekiel Bevier / I was born in the / year 1784 the 23 July"; family record of E. Bevier on blank pages at end.

Text printed in double column, verse form, verse nos. indented in matching type. Title centered at top of lef hand-side page, chapter no. at top of righ hand-side page. Italic chapter summaries. Without references.

Includes: list of books; "Account of the Dates ... "; O.T.; "A Table of Kindred and Affinity ... "; "A Table of time"; N.T.; "A Table of offices and conditions of men."

United Bible Societies language: English.