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Published by Anson Whipple, Walpole, (N. H.), 1815
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. The First Holy Bible to be printed in the State of New Hampshire. Anson Whipple was the son-in-law to Isaiah Thomas, with Thomas setting up the presses in Walpole in New Hampshire. Typesetting and printing took 5 years to accomplish, with a run of 8000 copies. Printed in double column format, bound in tree calf, with binding tight. Back cover nearly detached, front cover starting, leather spine label intact. Covers in Good Condition, Interior in VG Condition.
Published by Hugh Gaine, New York, 1792
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition Thus. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 816 pages; New York, Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine, at his book-store and printing-office, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square: 1792. Contemporary calf boards with sympathetic professional rebacking and replaced morocco label at spine. In 12's, printed in double columns. The contents have been carefully inspected with all pages believed present, including original endsheets. Extensive family records in a close hand relating to the families of Daniel Hodgkins, his daughter Betsy Hodgkins and of Sylvanus Sparks, to whom she was wed in 1812. Family history is listed on the blank leaf between the Testaments and on the verso of the title page and blank area of the facing recto. Condition faults are thus: the first 20 or so leaves are rubbed and a little nicked at the front edge, with some shallow chips at the corners. 6 or 7 of those leaves have short partial closed tears starting from the gutter, which have been closed with archival paper repairs. Leaf A9 had apparently detached and is missing a small triangular chip at the top gutter edge with some loss of text. The front edge of the same leaf is missing all of the margin and some minimal areas of text. Small worm hole in the lower margin of signatures M-O, generally not affecting text, but here and there reaching into the terminal line or two. Similar margin worming top front corner same signatures and likewise at top front corner of signature Z. Expected light toning to pages as expected. A tallow type margin stain to the margins of the first several leaves. Front endpage and terminal printed leaf have short archival paper reinforcements to the top edges. According to Hills "the type for this edition is said to have been set up in Scotland and imported in page form, ready for printing. The type was apparently kept standing. In 1803, the forms were sold to Matthew Carey of Philadelphia. Because of the delay on his own school edition, [Isaiah] Thomas is said to have purchased 500 copies of this Bible in sheets in 1792." It also seems likely that the forms were used by William Young of Philadelphia for his 1794 Bible. A rather decent example, with noteworthy provenance, and with an attractive sympathetic rebacking. Hills 40.
Published by Anson Whipple, Walpole, 1815
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary full leather binding, leather spine label, 959 numbered pages (Apocrypha not paginated). First Holy Bible Printed in the State of New Hampshire. Printing in New Hampshire began in 1756 but this was the first complete Bible. Anson Whipple was the son-in-law of pioneering American printer Isaiah Thomas and used Thomas's press for this Bible. The typesetting and printing took five years to accomplish and the press run was 8000 copies. Two copies found on WorldCat. Very scarce. Textually Very Good, signs of early stain at fore-edge of pages, in Very Good binding, top spine end and lower cover corners rather nicely rebacked in leather, hinges firm.
Published by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1791
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
50 engraved plates. Folio. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. THE FIRST FOLIO BIBLE IN AMERICA. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography, excellence of paper, binding, and general execution"--Wright, Early American Bibles, pages 74-88. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497 Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece. Expert repairs at top and bottom of spine. Housed in a morocco backed box First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible.
Published by Isaiah Thomas, Printed at the Press in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1791
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
The first quarto edition of the Holy Bible printed in America, printed by Isaiah Thomas, one of the most important printers of the early Republic. Quarto, bound in full early morocco with five raised bands to the spine, later morocco spine label lettered in gilt, discreetly rebacked, illustrated with two frontispieces and with numerous plates. Printed by Isaiah Thomas who also printed the first folio edition of the Holy Bible in America that same year. In very good condition with the frontispiece trimmed and laid down, title remargined, occasional closed tears and marginal chipping in places, some plates with chipped margins, lacking between title and Genesis, two leaves bound out of place in concordance at rear. Rare. Referred to as the â Baskerville of America" by Benjamin Franklin, Isaiah Thomas was one of the most notable Bible publishers in the early Republic. â Thomas was the leading publisher of his day. His printing establishment in Worcester eventually employed 150 persons and included seven presses, a paper mill, and bindery. He is still famous for his more than a hundred childrenâ s books of which he published tens of thousands of copies" (Appletonsâ Cyclopædia of American Biography). In planning his 1791 folio Bible, Thomas made a special effort to print the "most correct text" and examined over thirty copies of the King James Version. He issued a folio and a quarto Bible simultaneously (immediately after the ratification of the Bill of Rights) which "were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography, excellence of paper, binding, and general executionâ (Wright, Early Bibles of America,74).