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FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN NEW YORK

(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Self-Interpreting Bible. 20 plates. 3 parts in one, including the Apocrypha between the Old and New Testaments and with the list of subscribers following the New Testament. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, quite worn, joints cracked; foxing, 5-O torn but mostly present; bookplate on the front pastedown. New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1792

  • Notes: "This is the earliest edition of the Bible printed in New York. It was published by subscription, George Washington being the first subscriber, and was printed in forty parts over a period of two years"--Hills 37; Wright, pages 104-109; Evans 24099.

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