The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of The Original Tongues: and With The Former Translations Diligently compared and revised (Webb Family Bible)
Trenton: Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins, 1791. Hardcover. Full brown leather with diced boards, red leather gilt lettered title applied to leather spine. VG-, new leather spine, retaining original boards, endpapers and spine label. Item #166586
The first Bible printed in New Jersey, the second quarto King James Bible printed in America, and the best known product of the eighteenth-century New Jersey press. For a lengthy and highly detailed account of the printing, binding, promotion, publication, and distribution of the Collins Bible, see Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800, p. 578. / Includes the O.T. Apocrypha./ Includes: A brief concordance or table to the Bible of the last translation ... carefully perused and enlarged by John Downame ... Trenton : Printed and sold by Isaac Collins. M. DCC. XC. [1790] / New Testament and Brief concordance ... each have a special title page./ Includes index. Isaac Collins was a Quaker and native of Delaware. Hills, 31; Heabert, 1354; O'Callaghan, 1791:3/ For collation and full description see O'Callaghan, E.B.A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures and parts thereof printed in America previous to 1860. Detroit, 1966. Rare, and a noteworthy copy which has been professionally preserved. Contains the birth and death records for the Quaker family of Isaac Webb (1737 - 08/20/1808) and Elizabeth Webb (1739 - 06/11/1800) and their children James Webb (10/27/1760 - 07/21/1781), Joseph Webb (04/06/1762 - 01/07/1798), William Webb (03/13/1764 - 03/13/1840), Isaac Webb (05/26/1766 - 04/25/1769), Abner Webb (08/16/1768 - 02/15/1815), Hannah Webb (09/05/1770 - ?), [infant daughter] (09/1772, died four days old), Martha Webb [later Martha Gibbons] (02/13/1774 - 05/29/1839), Elizabeth Webb (06/17/1776 - 11/07/1792), Isaac Webb (09/28/1779 -10/20/1797). Also documents the birth of James Harper Webb (son of Abner and Ann Webb) on 03/24/1797; John Harper Webb (son of Abner and Ann Webb) on 08/02/1799; Isaac Webb (son of Abner and Ann Webb) on 03/02/1804. Bears the booksellers label of C.L. Traver of Trenton, NJ, who specialized in New Jersey History, Genealogy, State Reports, and was located at 108 S. Broad Street. An Index follows the Revelations, then Tables of Scripture Measures, etc., Brief Concardance by Downame. As per Felcone:.
OCLC: 1405367
Price: $2,400.00