The Holy Bible : Containing The Old And New Testaments : Together With The Apocrypha : Translated Out Of The Original Tongues And With The Former Translations Diligently Compared And Revised : With Canne's Marginal Notes And References : To Which Are Added An Index, An Alphabetical Table Of All The Names In The Old And New Testaments With Their Significations, Tables Of Scripture Weights, Measures, And Coins, John Brown's Concordance, &C. : Embellished With Maps And Elegant Historical Engravings
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- good
- Condition
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Sisters, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Collins and Co, 1816. Collins's Stereotype Edition. Full leather. Good. Quarto, 932pp., frontis engravings to both the old and new testaments, index. -- Concordance dated 1815 and Separately paginated with indexed columns, pages 1-54 (ab-wh) complete, pages 55,56 (wh-?) has remnant but 80% gone. -- 3 maps, 2 frontis engravings, 7 engravings in the text. -- Title page lacks endpaper, frontis, title page and first couple pages fragile, as is the last complete page of the Concordance. Moderate foxing throughout. Binding exterior well worn. Internally sound. -- In 1815 the first American Stereotype Bible (first from stereotype plates made in the United States) was stereotyped and printed by D. & G. Bruce of New York. -- This Collins Stereotype Edition (1816) is the first quarto size bible printed in America by the stereotype process. In printing, a stereotype is a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a form of hand set type. A stereotype could be made directly from typeset matrixes. This was especially advantages in book publishing. Book publishers no longer had to keep hand set galleys on hand in case of second or third runs of a book. The type could now be redistributed for other printing productions. The stereotype process was a critical part of a set of improvements that allowed printing to expand in scope: more words typeset, more pages printed, more copies produced.
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- Bookseller
- Lonesome Water Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10267
- Title
- The Holy Bible : Containing The Old And New Testaments : Together With The Apocrypha : Translated Out Of The Original Tongues And With The Former Translations Diligently Compared And Revised : With Canne's Marginal Notes And References : To Which Are Added An Index, An Alphabetical Table Of All The Names In The Old And New Testaments With Their Significations, Tables Of Scripture Weights, Measures, And Coins, John Brown's Concordance, &C. : Embellished With Maps And Elegant Historical Engravings
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collins's Stereotype Edition
- Publisher
- Collins and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1816
- Keywords
- Antiquarian Books, Literature, Bible, American Bibles, Stereotype Printing, Religion, Christianity, Publishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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Lonesome Water Books
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About the Seller
Lonesome Water Books
Biblio member since 2003
Sisters, Oregon
About Lonesome Water Books
We are a brick and mortar store located in Beautiful Sisters, Oregon. We have a stock of approximately 10,000 books, 80 percent of which are hardbound. We also carry old prints (decorative and original) and maps.
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