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The American Bible : original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the colonies and the United States of America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries

Title: The American Bible : original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the colonies and the United States of America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries / the set collected, described, and with a preface by Michael Zinman, and with an introduction by Mark Noll ; a selection of thirty-eight leaves in four portfolios.
Publication: Ardsley, New York : The Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, 1993.

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Not available - Please for assistance.	v. I	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+++ 21-579 v. I	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Not available - Please for assistance.	v. II	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+++ 21-579 v. II	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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Description

4 portfolios : samples; 58 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Private press books.
Leaf books.
Private press books – California – San Francisco – 1993.

Note

"This edition is limited to one hundred sets of four portfolios containing thirty-eight original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the Colonies and the United States during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The design and production of the edition were carried out under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press in San Francisco. Copyright @ 1993 by the Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts." -- colophon.

Binding (note)

In publisher's natural linen clamshell box; with red leather and gilt lettered labels pasted on cover and spine.

Contents

Portfolio I. Original leaves from the Bible in indigenous languages. Leaf 1. The Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America (Cambridge : Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663) -- Leaf 2. The second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible, translated into Massachusett (Cambridge : Samuel Green, 1685) -- Leaf 3. The New Testament, translated into Chippewa (Albany : Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1833) -- Leaf 4. The Gospels of Matthew and John, translated into Mohawk (New York : Young Men's Bible Society of New York, 1836) -- Leaf 5. The Bible, translated into Hawaiian (Oahu : American Bible Society, 1838) -- Leaf 6. Genesis, translated into Cherokee (Park Hill : Mission Press, 1856) -- Leaf 7. The New Testament, translated into Dakota (New York : American Bible Society, 1865) -- Leaf 8. The Pentateuch, translated into Choctaw (New York : American Bible Society, 1867).
Portfolio II. Original leaves from the Bible in English from the eighteenth century. Leaf 1. The first Bible in English printed in America (Philadelphia : Robert Aitken, 1782) -- Leaf 2. The first Bible for children printed in America (Worcester : Isaiah Thomas, 1788) -- Leaf 3. The first Catholic Bible printed in America, the Vulgate in English (Philadelphia : Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1790) -- Leaf 4. The first illustrated Bible in America (Worcester : Isaiah Thomas, 1791) -- Leaf 5. The second illustrated Bible in America (Worcester : Isaiah Thomas, 1791) -- Leaf 6. The first Bible printed in New Jersey (Trenton : Isaac Collins, 1791) -- Leaf 7. The first Bible printed in New York (New York : Hodge and Campbell, 1792) -- Leaf 8. The Berriman folio Bible modelled on that of Isaiah Thomas (Philadelphia : Berriman & Co., 1796) -- The United States of Columbia Bible, the "Standing Edition" (Worcester : Isaiah Thomas, 1797) -- Leaf 10. The first hot-press Bible printed in America (Philadelphia : John Thompson and Abraham Small, 1798)
Portfolio III. Original leaves from the Bible in English from the nineteenth century. Leaf 1. The first translation of the Septuagint Bible into English, by Charles Thomson (Philadelphia : Jane Aitken, 1808) -- Leaf 2. The first pronouncing Bible printed in America, edited by Israel Alger (Boston : Lincoln & Edmands, 1825) -- Leaf 3. The first American edition of the English text from Bagster's polyglot Bible of 1822 (Philadelphia : Key & Meilke, 1831) -- Leaf 4. Noah Webster's modernization of the Bible in English (New Haven : Durrie & Peck, 1833) -- Leaf 5. The first American edition of Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament (Andover : Gould & Newman, 1837) -- Leaf 6. The first Bible printed in America for the blind, under the direction of Samuel G. Howe, M.D. (New York : American Bible Society, 1842) -- Leaf 7. The most lavishly illustrated American Bible, with drawings by J.G. Chapman (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1846) -- Leaf 8. The 'fonetik' New Testament, set in Comstock's 'purfect alfabet' (Philadelphia : A. Comstock, M.D., 1848) -- Leaf 9. The first New Testament printed in Georgia (Augusta : Confederate States Bible Society, 1862) -- Leaf 10. The first Bible translated by a woman, Julia Smith (Hartford : American Publishing Company, 1876)
Portfolio IV. Original leaves from the Bible in other languages. Leaf 1. The first Bible in German printed in America (Germantown : Christoph Saur, 1743) -- Leaf 2. The second Saur edition of the German Bible, the first Bible printed on paper made in America (Germantown : Christoph Saur, 1763) -- Leaf 3. The third Saur edition of the German Bible, the first Bible printed from type cast in America (Germantown : Christoph Saur, 1776) -- Leaf 4. The first New Testament in Greek printed in America (Worcester : Isaiah Thomas, Junior, 1800) -- Leaf 5. The first Bible in Hebrew printed in America (Philadelphia : Thomas Dobson, 1814) -- Leaf 6. The first Bible in French printed in America (New York : New York Bible Society, 1815) -- Leaf 7. The first Bible in Spanish printed in America (New York : American Bible Society, 1824) -- Leaf 8. The first New Testament in Portuguese printed in America (New York : American Bible Society, 1839) -- Leaf 9. The first New Testament in Dutch printed in America (New York : American Bible Society, 1849) -- Leaf 10. The first New Testament in Swedish printed in America (New York : American Bible Society, 1850).

Call Number

Rare Books+++ 21-579

OCLC

29557180

Title

The American Bible : original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the colonies and the United States of America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries / the set collected, described, and with a preface by Michael Zinman, and with an introduction by Mark Noll ; a selection of thirty-eight leaves in four portfolios.

Publisher

Ardsley, New York : The Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, 1993.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

In publisher's natural linen clamshell box; with red leather and gilt lettered labels pasted on cover and spine. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+++ 21-579 is no. 25 of 100 copies.

Added Author

Zinman, Michael, compiler.

Noll, Mark A., 1946- writer of introduction.

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer.

Arion Press, book designer.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+++ 21-579

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