The holy bible contaning ye Old and New testaments. Newly Translated out of ye. Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised
1653réf. AQ27507London: Printed by John Field. Printer to the Parliament 1653. 599ff including the terminal blank Ddd12. With an engraved title page. Closely trimmed to margins with regular shaving of headlines occasionally touching text; Uu2 with lower corner torn away with loss of text to 9 lines of text of Luke XXXI and XXXII. Eighteenth-century inscriptions some scribbled out to front fly-leaves - which like the title and the following leaf also have some foxing and chipping with a small hole. Bound with: PSALTER. The whole book of psalms: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches. London. Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament 1654. 48ff. Closely trimmed to margins with regular shaving of headlines occasionally touching text. Small printing flaw to D6 with loss to 5 lines of text. ESTC R40771. Wing B2455. Likely eighteenth-century elaborately gilt-tooled black morocco brass clasp. The gilt decoration largely worn away some loss to corners a little rubbing to extremities. Gauffering to gilt edges the clasp has slightly damaged the fore-edges towards the end where it has evidently dragged along the text block. A handsome copy of the 'Pearl' Bible with just a few minor flaws printed by John Field during the rule of Cromwell's Commonwealth at the behest of Parliament. Although produced in large numbers Darlow and Moule suggests in excess of 20000 their diminutive size the small volumes were designed to fit into the pocket of the British souls and poor quality of paper means that few survive in such condition: . Conforming to the Authorised King James Version the Field Bible was printed with a haste unheard of in Bible production and is thus notorious for its wildly varying inaccuracies and misprints. In this copy the three errors noted by Darlow and Moule to John IX. 21 Romans VI.13 and1 Corinthians VI.9 have all been corrected but three further to Matthew VI. 24 John II.10 and III.21 identified by Lee Wilson are all incorrrect. Darlow and Moule 637. ESTC Wing B2238. 'Pearl Bible'. 24mo. Printed by John Field. Printer to the Parliament unknown
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