A Collation Of The Sacred Scriptures..
Bound in original red cloth, with blind stamped decoration and gilt block on front board; spine rebacked, gilt, with new endpapers. All edges gilt. Extremities worn, small tears at lower inner edge of title page and preface; otherwise a good copy.
£120.00
Details
SCARCE DUNDEE PRINTING
Publisher
Printed for the Author by M'Cosh, Park, and Dewars.,
Place
Dundee
Date
1847
Synopsis
The old testament from the translations of john rogers, the bishops, the genevan, and present authorized version; the new testament from wiclif, rogers, the rhemes, or roman catholic, translated 1582, the genevan, the present authorized, and gilbert wakefield, 1795; with a historical account of all the english versions, and also an account of the more ancient mss and editions. and memoirs of the principal translators. by charles roger, dundee.
Item Description
4to. 9.25 x 11.25 inches. [1] + 323 pp + [1]. Half title. Title page in red and black and List of subscribers in blue. Headings and notes in red. Text in double columns.
Illustrations
Illustrated by coloured lithograph frontispiece. Decorated by initials.
Notes
A lengthy introductory section surveys the various Bible translations into English, with accounts of the lives of the translators. The main text selects passages from the scriptures and prints four alternative translations side by side for the Old Testament and six for the New Testament. A scarce work; COPAC records only one copy of the Dundee edition, in the British Library and one copy, in King's College Library of the 1847 London edition, with a variant title,
[Stock No. 21816]
Subjects
19th Century • Bibles • Christian • History/Theology • Theology