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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments / newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command, appointed to be read in churches.

Accession number
PML 126347.2
Published
Oxford : Printed by John Baskett, 1723.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Contains a series of interleaved plates with a separate engraved t.p.: The historical part of the Holy Bible, or, The Old and New Testament exquisitely and accurately describ'd in near three hundred historys / engraven by John Sturt from designs of the great masters. [London] : Sold by Richd. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner.
Apocrypha has caption title; N.T. has separate t.p.: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / newly translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. "Tables of Scripture-measures, weights, and coins ... / by the R.R. Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough" follows the N.T.
Signatures: A² ²A-Z⁸ 2A⁸(+*2A3, *2A4) 2B-3P⁸ 3Q⁴ *3Q⁴ 3R-4H⁸ 4I² [a]-[d⁴] [e²](-[e]2) (misprinting [c3] for [c2]).
Description
[1294] p., [129] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 28 cm.
Provenance
Inscribed by Sarah Mason, St. Michael's; collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Classification
Department