(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible.

FIRST HOT PRESSED BIBLE (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible. Frontispiece. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary calf gilt, worn and dry, covers detached, volume two lacking the spine labels, volume one spine label detached but present; foxing, offsetting from the frontispiece to the title, rear endpaper in volume two torn; with an early Philadelphia family record on the leaves between the OT and NT (James & Elizabeth Rodman Paul and their descendants). List of subscribers in the rear of volume two. Philadelphia: John Thompson & Abraham Small, 1798

first hot-press edition of the bible printed in america, famous for its clarity of printing derived from heating the ink and type to sear it onto the page. This edition also of note as one of the largest bibles printed in America in its time and for the frontispiece engraved by Alexander Lawson. Hills 62; Evans 33408; Sabin 5182.
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