Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN MINIATURE.) [Taylor, John.] The Bible. Woodcut illustrations. 286 pages plus final blank. 64mo, original boards, worn; minor foxing, a few leaves detached; 1796 gift inscription on front flyleaf. Philadelphia: Sower & Jones, circa 1794-96
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Stated "eighth edition" of Taylor's Verbum Sempiternum, a popular abridgement of the Bible in verse. Dedicated to President Washington on pages [5-6]. Adomeit, Thumb Bibles, A129 (though the present copy is a variant with page 286 printed as "28", as in the 1798 edition); Evans 26649; Welch 1293.7. 3 copies in ESTC.