Object Record
Metadata
Accession number |
P2 |
Title |
The second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible |
Date |
1685 |
Notes |
By 1675 copies of Eliot's first edition of the Bible were becoming increasingly scarce. The Reverend Eliot petitioned the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel for funds to print a second edition. He was successful in his request, and printing commenced in 1678, with the New Testament completed in 1680 and the entire Bible in 1685. Costs for the production of the Bible amounted to £500, a vast sum for the time. The quantity of paper used in the production of the two editions of the Bible was greater than all of the paper used in all other printing in the American Colonies in the seventeenth century. The second edition has no facing English title page |
Collection |
Framed Bible Leaves |
Subjects |
Bible Leaves Bible History |