Historic Bibles of America 14 leaves 1663 Eliot Indian
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Historical Bibles of America 14 Original Leaves Historic American Bible Leaf Collection Many important first editions make up the historic American printings of the Bible. This collection includes leaves from many of these editions. Leaves from the following Bibles are included in the collection. 1663 Eliot Indian Bible, 1743 Saur Bible, 1763 Saur Bible, 1772 Saur Psalter, 1776 Saur Bible, 1782 Aitken Bible, 1791 Isaac Collins Bible, 1792 John Brown Bible, 1798 Hot Press Bible, 1814 Hebrew Bible, 1833 Webster Bible, 1842 Pre-Braille Bible, and 1846 Most Lavishly Illustrated Bible. To purchase an entire copy of each of these Bibles would be unaffordable for most individuals or churches, but these leaves make such a collection readily available. A history of each leaf is included below. Description: Each leaf is in good condition, placed in a plastic acid free sleeve, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the Christian Heritage Museum. A random leaf from from our collection from either the Old or New Testament. History of the Notable American Bibles Represented in this Collection: 1663 Eliot Indian Bible, first Bible printed in America: The first Bible to be printed in America, the first seal of the Massachusetts colony included the picture of a native American speaking the words "Come and help us" (from Acts 16:9). Sharing the Gospel with the natives was an early aim of the colony. John Eliot, pastor in Roxbury, Massachusetts, especially concentrated on learning Algonquian and developing a written language for the natives. In 1663, he printed the Indian Bible. The actual printing of the Bible took three years, printing one page a week. This Bible, second edition of John Eliot's Algonquin Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America, read by the Indians in the Natick settlement. Partly printed by an Indian, this Bible was published by Samuel Green. Samuel Green had published some of colonial pastor John Bailey's sermons. In this Bible, Bailey's inscription was first, when he passed it on to his son, Joseph. Next, Harvard-educated Grindal Rawson, who attended college with famed colonial preacher Cotton Mather, owned the Bible. Proficient in Indian languages, Rawson soon worked among them and was appointed as a missionary to the Massachusetts Indians. As a translator, he flourished in his work nearly as much as John Eliot himself, to whom he was a successor. 1743 Saur Bible, first European Bible printed in America: Christoph Saur (1693–1758) printed the first European language Bible in America, using Fraktur (a German style of black letter) type obtained from the Luther Foundry of Frankfurt, Germany. It took three years to complete the printing and the edition was 1200 copies at a price of 18 shillings. For the poor, Saur wrote, "we have no price." 1763 Saur Bible, first Bible printed in America on American-made paper: Christoph Saur II (1721–84) continued his father's work, and produced the second Saur Bible in 1763 in an edition of 2000 copies. It is the first Bible printed in America on American-made paper. 1772 Saur German Psalter, first to add German Reformed Hymnal. This 1772 psalter contained the first German Reformed Hymnal printed in America. The Psalter itself is actually the third printed edition, at which time Christopher Saur added the first Reformed German Hymnal. Containing 730 songs for the German Reformed Church. Title : "...Neu-vermehrt- und vollstandiges Gesang-Buch..." Published in Germantown, PA. 1776 Saur Bible, first Bible printed in America with American type set, "The Gun Wad Bible." Christoph Saur II (1721–84) The third and the last of the Saur Bibles to be printed was also known as the Gun-Wad Bible. It was the first Bible in America printed from American-made type. The type was manufactured by Justus Fox at the Saur Type Foundry in Germantown. The Gun-Wad Bible is considered a rare Bible because it was printed just prior to the battle of Germantown during the Revolution. Saur had originally produced 3000 copies of this edition, but the vast majority of them were destroyed by the occupying British soldiers who used the sheets for firewood and horse bedding, but primarily as cartridge paper or "gun-wad." According to contemporary accounts, all of the Bibles of this edition were destroyed, with the exception of 10 copies said to have been saved by Saur's daughter Catherine. While this number has never been confirmed, it is unquestionable that the surviving copies numbered as few. 1782 Aitken Bible, the Bible of the American Revolution: Printed by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia in 1782, this was the First Bible in English printed in America. Robert Aitken (1734-1802), a Quaker, left Ireland from English persecution and settled in Pennsylvania. In this country, he supported the Revolution and determined to publish a Bible in English in violation of English laws. In 1781, he petitioned Congress for approval and financial aid. Congress recommended the publication of an edition of 30,000 Bibles, at a cost of ten thousand dollars. 1791 Isaac Collins Bible, first Bible printed in New Jersey, Bible of Colonial America: Carrying the honor of being the first family Bible printed in America and the first Bible printed in New Jersey, this Bible is a sacred and distinguished treasure in our American history. Published by Isaac Collins, this Bible was long heralded as the measure of correctness in Biblical text. The Bible was even read through eleven times by Collins' children to make certain that it had no mistakes. In the end, the two mistakes found were less significant than a single letter. This Bible, which is fairly rare today, was published by Collins following his earlier production of a New Testament in 1779. Though he required only three thousand requests in 1789 for his work of the Bible in order to print it, he eventually printed five thousand copies. Collins was a Quaker who enjoyed a prominent reputation as a printer, due in large measure to his printing of the Bible. Though born in Delaware, Collins moved several times and was the printer for the State of New Jersey while living in the city of Trenton. 1792 John Brown Bible: first Bible printed in New York, Self-Interpreting Bible: This is the earliest edition of the Bible printed in New York. It was published by subscription, George Washington being the first subscriber, and was printed in forty parts over a period of two years. John Brown (1722-1787) was a Scottish weaver who became a Presbyterian minister. Although self-educated, he prepared an annotated Bible, Bible dictionary and concordance, and a metrical version of the Psalms. is Self-Interpreting Bible appeared first in 1778 in Edinburgh and was "many times reprinted in Scotland and in America." 1798 Hot Press Bible. The first hot press edition of the Bible printed in America. In the advertisement, April 30th , 1796, it was proposed to deliver the whole in 40 numbers, at 1/2 dollar each; one of which will be completed every two weeks. The finished work was completed in November, 1798. A scarce American Bible. Title page reads: The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments; Together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations, Diligently Compared and Reviled. Volume II. Philadelphia, Printed for John Thompson & Abraham Small, [From the Hot Press of John Thompson.] M.DCC.XCVIII. 1814 First Hebrew Bible printed in America. Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson: The first book printed in the Hebrew language in America was an edition of the Psalms, edited by Professor Francis Hare, issued by the press of Harvard College in 1809. In 1810 a prospectus with sample pages for an octavo Hebrew Bible was distributed by Mills Day of New Haven, Connecticut, but the project failed. The first Hebrew Bible to be published in America was that of Thomas Dobson, printed by William Fry in Philadelphia. 1833 Noah Webster Bible: "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed…No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." Noah Webster (1758-1843) is undoubtedly known unto this day for his great work in compiling the Webster's Dictionary and numerous text books. However, his Bible, considered to be just as accurate of works, did not catch on. The King James Bible was just too much competition. 1842 Pre Braille Bible, first Pre Braille Bible printed in America. Pre-Braille was used by hymn writer Fanny Crosby in her reading and teaching at the New York Institute for the Blind. Pre-Braille was created with Roman type in a raised letter system, called the "Line Letter" system, developed by Samuel Gridley Howe, M.D., the director of the Perkins Institution for the Education of the Blind in Boston. In 1835, he purchased type and a press to attempt a printing of the Scriptures for the blind. The type was imprinted inkless from the rear of the sheet and die-stamped into dampened paper into a receptive mould. This created right reading, raised letters on the surface of the paper when dried. The readers then felt their way over the letters in order to read the text. The Line Letter (dot) system was not superceded by the Braille system until the end of the nineteenth century. 1846 The most lavishly illustrated American Bible, New York: Harper & Brothers. Although completed in 1846, the date recorded on the title page, publication was begun in 1843 when the first of fifty-four parts was issued. The price for each number was twenty-five cents. The expense for manufacture and for artists engaged on this ambitious project over a period of six years came to $20,000.00, making this one of the most costly Bibles produced in the nineteenth century. The fine line drawings of J. G. Chapman are reproduced with utmost fidelity. The references are in a central column. The double columns of text are interspersed with small vignettes and initial letters. This was a remarkable production for its time, executed with great care throughout, and holds an important place in American printing history. 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