Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 71

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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [334] pages plus final blank. 12mo, contemporary calf, minor wear; tightly trimmed, minor wear to endpapers, contents clean. New York: Hugh Gaine, 1790
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Hills calls this the second New Testament published in New York, after Gaine's apparently unique 1789 edition held only by the New York Public Library. The 1789 edition is not recorded in ESTC, Wright, or Ford's Journals of Hugh Gaine; Evans lists it with no examples traced and the wrong printer. The present 1790 edition carries over the same typographical errors and was apparently printed from the same setting of type except for the title page. Wright calls this 1790 edition "the first Testament printed in New York," adding that "it is considered rare by Bible collectors" (page 101). Hodge & Campbell published a complete Bible in New York two years later. Evans 22359; Hills 27.