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THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST Great Primer Royal 8vo
1865Best.-Nr. 2133American Bible Society 1865. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 4 844 pp. Great Primer Royal 8vo 7' x 9.75'. Green Morocco goatskin leather over boards five raised bands over gilt ruled borders with fleuron decals and 'TESTAMENT' title boards gilt and blind double-ruled with fleurons at corners of interior panel all edges gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins. Rubbing to extremities small ding to front cover short tear to front hinge tail edge front hinge starting rear hinge just starting 1' from tail light bowing aside from a few short tears text is very clean and square. Original owner's signature 'Alexander Campbell' with line of succession added by one later hand. Campbell was a Methodist minister not the Church of Christ founder of Bethany VA. Very large print with incredibly bold and clear type. Great Primer = 18pt font = 6.350 mm. During the Civil War the American Bible Society distributed over 1 million Bibles for three consecutive years from 1863-65 a feat not replicated until 1918 John Fea The Bible Cause. Most of these Bibles were pocket-sized Testaments distributed to Soldiers most commonly the cheaply-produced pocket-sized Nonpareil 32mo. The ABS did however produce a much smaller number of "Fine Bibles" such as this one to help finance the cause of placing a bible in the hands of every American. Hills 1628 later printing. No. 86 at $4.25 in the price catalog of the ABS Annual Report Vol. 49 1865 OCLC lists only 1 copy each of the two 1857 ABS Great Primer printings and none of the 1865. American Bible Society hardcover
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