The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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    BIBLE Of the innumerable books relating to the bibliography of the English Bible by far the most complete and the most reliable is T. H. Dariow and H. F. Mottle, Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scrip¬ ture in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. (London, 1903-1911. 2 vols. 8°.) In the following list are included only a few editions of particular im¬ portance for the bibliographer and collector. The New Testament. [Cologne, Peter Quentell, 1525]. A- • The first edition of Tindale’s translation. Only known by a fragment of 31 leaves rescued from a binding (British Museum, Grenville library). Reprinted in facs. by E. Arber (London, 1871. 4°). The New Testament. [Worms, Peter Schoiffer, 1525]. 4^. Tindale’s translation. The second edition, only known by two imper¬ fect copies (Bristol and St. Paul’s Cathedral). Reprinted in facs. by F. Fry (Bristol, 1862. 4°). For this and' the subsequent editions of the New Testament, see Fry, A bibliographical description of the editions of the New Testament, Tyndale s version (London, 1878. 4°). The Pentateuch. Malborow, Hans Luff, 1530. 5 parts in 1 vol. 8°. Tindale’s translation. Only three perfect copies are known. 1. Brit. Mus. (Grenville); 2. £940 John Quicke (5 July 1905, n. 42) old calf, subsequently in the Thomas coll, at Philadelphia (now J. P. Morgan) ; 3. £455 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 702) russia (now J. P. Morgan). A second issue, of equal rarity, bears the date of 1534. The Bible. [Zurich, Christopher Proschover ?], 1535. Fol. Coverdale’s translation. The first printed Bible in the English language. No absolutely perfect copy is known to exist; the map at the end of the Pentateuch is nearly always wanting. Fry could only trace of this map four halves and two complete impressions. The least imperfect copies are those of Lord Leicester, the Marquess of Northampton, the Rylands Library and the Pierpont Morgan Library (from Lord Ash- burnham’s sale: £820, June 1897, n. 49) ; this last only wants the title, half the map and one lof the prel. leaves; a fine copy, wanting title, map and two prel. leaves, £400 Perkins (June 1873, n. 191), resold £360 Ben- zon (1875, n. 18), £ 385 Amherst (Dec. 1908, n. 99) and $3700 Wallace (March 1920, n. 56) ; a copy lacking the map and some 15 leaves, $3000 Appleton (Apr. 1903, n. 14), now Pierpont Morgan Library; £200 Wil¬ son (May 1916, n. 56) mor., by Lewis, wanting only the map and the prel. leaves, resold $3600 Robinson (Apr. 1918, n. 77) now Huntington. The second issue, with the date 1536, seems only to be known by the
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