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FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN NEW YORK (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Self-Interpreting Bible. 20 plates. 3 parts in one, including the Apocrypha between the Old and New Testaments and with the list of subscribers following the New Testament. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, quite worn, joints cracked; foxing, 5-O torn but mostly present; bookplate on the front pastedown. New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1792
"This is the earliest edition of the Bible printed in New York. It was published by subscription, George Washington being the first subscriber, and was printed in forty parts over a period of two years"--Hills 37; Wright, pages 104-109; Evans 24099.
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