(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Worcester, 1791

(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. 48 plates. 1310, 89 pages. 4to, contemporary tree calf gilt, quite worn, covers detached; leaves preceding the OT and the first signature of the OT detached, some offsetting from the plates, varying degrees of browning, staining and foxing but generally minor; modern cloth box. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1791

first royal quarto bible in english published in america. Although the colophon to the New Testament calls for 50 plates, Hills maintains that the number actually varied. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography, excellence of paper, binding, and general execution"--Wright, Early American Bibles, pages 74-88; Hills 30; Evans 23185.
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