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

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    71/676 page 49
    The Holy Bible . . . Oxford, J. Baskett, 1717. 2 vols. Fol. Frontisp. by Sturt and vignette by Burghers. There are large paper copies with a frontispiece by Du Bose and a vignette by Vandergucht. This edition is known as the “Vinegar Bible, from a misprint for “Vineyard'’ in the running title to Luke XX. Large paper copies, now worth $15-25, used to bring four times as much. A copy on vellum, £255 Sunderland (Dec. 1881, n. 1424) old mor. The Bible. Oxford, printed by Mark Baskett and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1752. 40. This is believed to have been printed surreptitiously at Boston by Knee- land and Green in 1752. The only.copy known, $2025 McKee (May 1902, n. 4714), afterwards in the Thomas coll. See The Bibliographer, I (1902) pp. 238-240. The Holy Bible . . . Edinburgh, John Reid, 1766. Fol. An imperfect copy but one which had the distinction of being the family Bible of Robert Burns was sold for £ 1560 at Sotheby’s, 17 Dec. 1904, n. 885, and is now in the Burns Cottage at Alloway. BIBLE IN INDIAN The Holy Bible . . . translated into the Indian Lan¬ guage, Cambridge [Mass.], Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. 40. The New Testament is dated 1661. The first edition of John Eliot’s celebrated translation of the Bible. There are seven different issues varying only in the preliminary leaves. (See the detailed account by W. Eames in J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian languages. Washington, 1891. 4°, pp. 139-152; also J. Wright, Early Bibles of America, New York, 1892. 12°.) Some 43 copies are known. — £580 Hardwicke (June 1888, n. 45) old mor., now Huntington; another copy in old mor., a duplicate from the Bodleian has appeared in no less than six sales: $1130 Bruce (Apr. 1868, n. 267), $1050 Rice (March 1870, n. 662), $900 Menzies (Nov. 1876, n. 665), $1250 Cooke (Dec. 1883, n. 789), $1650 Ives (March 1891, n. 70), £ 370 Lefferts (June 1902, n. 27), and was last in the Thomas coll.; in mor., by Bedford, $1000 Brinley (March 1879, n. 787), now Pierpont Morgan Library; the New Testament alone $1810 Huntington (March 1919, X, n. 76) old calf (Bridgewater copy).
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3