Object Record
Metadata
Accession number |
P27 |
Title |
THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATION DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED |
Notes |
Because of the blockade by the North and the need to distribute Bibles to troops, several editions of the New Testament were printed in the Confederacy during the Civil War. This was the first and is considered on e of the rarest of nineteenth-century New Testaments printed in America. The confederate States Bible Society was founded in 1862, the year of this publication. The printers were Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co. of Atlanta. It was the first printing of any part of the Bible in Georgia, although the presswork appears to have been done from the same plates at the Tennessee Bible Society New Testament of 1861, with a new title page. The format of the book was designed to be small so that a soldier could easily carry it into battle. |
Collection |
Framed Bible Leaves |
Subjects |
Bible Leaves Bible History |