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Bible in English
Estimate
2,500 - 4,000 USD
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Description
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha. Philadelphia: Printed for John Thompson and Abraham Small from the Hot-Press of John Thompson, 1798
2 volumes, folio (16 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.; 415 x 264 mm). Engraved frontispiece in each volume by Lawson and Dunlap respectively, 19 engraved plates (including a map) by Godwin, Tiebout, Marverick, Doolittle and Rollinson some dated 1790-1792, blank verso of New Testament title and of the following plate contain birthdates of the Haggerty family of Flushing, Long Island, dating 1802-1861; some browning, spotting and offset from plates. Contemporary maroon calf, striated in imitation of morocco, gold roll-tooled scrollwork border, gold-stamped black morocco title labels on spines; worn and scraped, joints cracked.
2 volumes, folio (16 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.; 415 x 264 mm). Engraved frontispiece in each volume by Lawson and Dunlap respectively, 19 engraved plates (including a map) by Godwin, Tiebout, Marverick, Doolittle and Rollinson some dated 1790-1792, blank verso of New Testament title and of the following plate contain birthdates of the Haggerty family of Flushing, Long Island, dating 1802-1861; some browning, spotting and offset from plates. Contemporary maroon calf, striated in imitation of morocco, gold roll-tooled scrollwork border, gold-stamped black morocco title labels on spines; worn and scraped, joints cracked.
Literature
Evans 33408; Herbert 1425; Sabin 5182; on the extra-illustrations see B. Lacey, From Sacred to Secular (2007), p. 81
Condition
some browning, spotting and offset from plates. Contemporary maroon calf, striated in imitation of morocco, gold roll-tooled scrollwork border, gold-stamped black morocco title labels on spines; worn and scraped, joints cracked.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
The first hot-press bible printed in the United States, renowned for its clarity of printing through the use of heated ink and type. Issued originally in forty fascicles, the text derives from the Cambridge edition of John Baskerville.
As the second frontispiece and 19 plates are not mentioned in bibliographies, they must be counted as extra-illustrations, inserted when the book was bound (to judge from the offsetting). They first appeared in Brown's Self-Instructing Folio Family Bible (New York: 1792). Of particular interest is the second frontispiece in which an allegorical America, a goddess wearing a headress of feathers seated next to a plinth bearing the inscribed names of revolutionary leaders such as Washington, Franklin, Adams, Greene, Mercer, Putnam, Jay, et al., receives rays of inspiration from a kneeling woman with an open bible as a female personification of Liberty observes.