Bible in English [The "Vinegar" Bible]

Folio (19 3/4 x 13 in.; 502 x 330 mm). Title and calendar printed in red and black, roman type, text in double columns, 59 lines to the full column, engraved frontispiece by Dubose after J. Thornhill, general title with engraved view of Oxford by Gerard Vandergucht, title to New Testament with engraved vignette of the Annunciation (unsigned), 62 engraved text illustrations by Beauvais, Dubose, Dupuis, DuGuernier, Vandergucht and others after Cheron, Laguerre, and Thornhill, engraved initials and tailpieces; frontispiece and general title-page mounted, lacks c2, about 20 leaves with long marginal or internal tears and holes affecting text or partly costing a portion of a few side-notes and engravings, 6 leaves remargined (text in lower right corner of [A]2 supplied in pen), leaves Hh1 and [S]2 defective, final leaf browned. Retrospective calf binding over wooden boards, brass corner and center plates with bosses, brass catchplates, marbled endpapers; battered, rebacked, one catchplate and hasps missing.

Alderley Parish, Cheshire (supralibros on both covers)

ESTC T89281; Herbert 942

Folio (19 3/4 x 13 in.; 502 x 330 mm). Title and calendar printed in red and black, ruled in red throughout, engraved frontispiece by Du-Bose after J. Thornhill, general title with engraved view of Oxford by Gerard Vandergucht, title to New Testament with engraved vignette of the Annunciation (unsigned), 62 engraved text illustrations by Beauvais, Dubose, Dupuis, DuGuernier, Vandergucht and others after Cheron, Laguerre, and Thornhill, engraved initials and head-pieces; frontispiece and general title-page mounted, lacks c2, about 20 leaves with long marginal or internal tears and holes affecting text or partly costing a portion of a few side-notes and engravings, 6 leaves remargined (text in lower right corner of [A]2 supplied in pen), leaves Hh1 and [S]2 defective, final leaf browned. Retrospective calf binding over wooden boards, brass corner and center plates with bosses, brass catchplates, marbled endpapers; battered, rebacked, one catchplate and hasps missing.
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Commonly known as the "Vinegar Bible" from the misprint "the parable of the vinegar" for "vineyard" in the headline above Luke, Chapter 20, this copy contains the correct wording, which possibly represents a press change while working off the sheets. Otherwise this copy contains the other misprints mentioned by Herbert in Acts 3:24 ("... and the prophets ... and all those ...." for "and all the prophets ... and those ...")  and in Acts 4:24 ("had" for "heard"). While some contemporary wags lambasted Baskett for the many errors in the text, calling it a "Baskett-ful of errors," Oxford historian of printing Harry Carter states that "only Baskerville's Bible (see Lot 114) is its equal among English Bibles for beauty of type, impression, and paper" (The History of the Oxford University Press, 1975, I, p. 171).