(BIBLE IN ENGLISH) The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New

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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. [1160] pages. 4to, modern cloth by Gaebel; dampstaining, edge repairs to 5 leaves; John James family register leaf through 1831 preceding New Testament. Trenton, NJ: Isaac Collins, 1791

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"The first Bible printed in New Jersey, the second quarto edition of the King James Bible printed in America, and the most ambitious project of Isaac Collins' printing career"--Felcone 12. Also features the first printing of an uncredited introduction by John Witherspoon titled "To the Reader," written to replace the traditional dedication to King James. "This production became very popular, and was published over and over again in various editions of the Bible by different printers, for thirty or more years"--Wright, Early Bibles, p. 95. Collins made the inclusion of the Apocrypha and Ostervald's 154-page "Practical Observations" optional for subscribers. This copy includes the Apocrypha, but not Ostervald. Evans 23184, Hills 31. Provenance: original owner John James (1758-1828), a Quaker of Pennsylvania and Delaware.