Object Record
Metadata
Accession number |
P15 |
Title |
THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. |
Date |
1791 |
Notes |
Isaac Collins, a member of the Society of Friends and New Jersey's finest printer of the eighteenth century, announced his intention to print a quarto edition of the Bible in October 1788. In 1789 he issued proposals for printing by subscription a Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, and notes by Jean Frederic Ostervald. The proposal included endorsements by the Quakers, Presbyterian, Episcopalians, and Baptists, as well as a recommendation by New Jersey governor William Livingston. In an effort to conform to the particular requirements of the various denominations, Collins offered the Bible alternatively with or without Apocrypha or Ostervald's notes, and copies survive in each of these permutations. John Downam's concordance, first printed by Collins in 1790 is present in all copies. Collins and his editor, John Witherspoon, rejected the traditional dedication to King James as "wholly unnecessary for the purposed of edification, and perhaps on some accounts improper to be continued in an American edition", and substituted a brief introduction written by Witherspoon. The edition was announced as three thousand copies, but upwards of five thousand may have been printed. |
Collection |
Framed Bible Leaves |
Subjects |
Bible Leaves Bible History |