1762 Quarto Paris Bible - A Serious Attempt to Correct the KJV Text
Key Features
Prepared by F.S. Paris and H. Therold
Format: Quarto (approx. 11” x 8.5”)
Font: Double Column Roman
Binding: Black Morocco
Printer: Joseph Bentham, Cambridge
SKU: R46
Key Features
Prepared by F.S. Paris and H. Therold
Format: Quarto (approx. 11” x 8.5”)
Font: Double Column Roman
Binding: Black Morocco
Printer: Joseph Bentham, Cambridge
SKU: R46
Key Features
Prepared by F.S. Paris and H. Therold
Format: Quarto (approx. 11” x 8.5”)
Font: Double Column Roman
Binding: Black Morocco
Printer: Joseph Bentham, Cambridge
SKU: R46
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments…
Description
Engraved frontispiece. Printed general title page (1762) within printed black border. Text in two column Roman font. With Apocrypha as issued. Printed New Testament title page (1762). Concludes with Index.
Collation
A-Z^8, Aa-Zz^8, Aaa-Ddd^8, Eee^2, A-M^8, Fff-Yyy^8, Zzz^4. Complete with titles.
Binding
Black straight-grained morocco. Boards with double rolled panels around a central lozenge both decorated in gilt and blind. Spine with three raised bands and gilt tooling to compartments with the words “Holy Bible” and “Cambridge 1762” lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Red endpapers.
Condition
Upper joint cracked but holding. Hinges strengthened. Sporadic marginal staining but a clean and crisp text overall.
Note
The first "quarto edition of the King James version, edited by H. Therold. William Lloyd's dates and chronological notes were also amended. The first standard edition in folio was prepared by F.S. Paris and H. Therold and published the same year. In this Bible a serious attempt was made to correct the text ... by amending the spelling and punctuation, unifying and extending the use of italics, and removing printers' errors. Marginal annotations ... were finally received into the place they have occupied ever since, sundry new ones being added" (Herbert).
References
Herbert 94; S126044; USTC 517869.