AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE BIBLE OF THE REVOLUTION AND AN ESSAY CONCERNING IT
by [Leaf Book]: Dearden, Robert R., Jr., and Douglas S. Watson:
Price: $350.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 57573
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell, 1930.
Book Description
San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell, 1930.. 34pp. Large octavo. Quarter calf and decorated boards. Frontis, portrait and facsimiles. Crown and toe of spine chipped, slight cracking to inner hinges, otherwise a good copy, without slipcase. First edition. One of 515 numbered copies of the "Colonial Edition," from a total edition limited to 580 copies. Inserted into this copy is a leaf from Judges. Inscribed and signed by Howell to Arthur Swann, "friend of all Bookmen," and with a brief t.l.s. from Howell to Swann, 4 March 1932, laid in. A note by Edwin Grabhorn on typography of the period is appended. Aitken, a Philadelphia printer, produced an edition of the New Testament in 1781 and of the Old Testament in 1782, and received the endorsement of the Continental Congress in September 1782. His edition of the Bible was the first English language edition produced after the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Printer ended, and is commonly referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution." GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 131.
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