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Title
Verbum sempiternum.
Uniform title
Bible. Selections. English. 1693.
Variant title
Half-title: Bible
Created/published
London : Printed by F. Collins for T. Ilive, at the Nags-Head in Jewen-Street, 1693.
Description
[288] pages ; 50 mm
Associated name
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
Note
From dealer's description: "32mo., pp. [288], with an imprimatur leaf (signed ‘A’ on the recto), a half title (‘Bible’ with borders of printer’s tools), and a terminal blank (K8) to the Old Testament; a separate half-title and title-page (‘Salvator Mundi’) to the New Testament, the initial leaf signed only ‘A’ and two terminal blanks (h3-4); a very good copy in contemporary black morocco, panelled gilt, gilt edges. A very attractive copy of this famous ‘thumb bible’. John Taylor’s biblical verse paraphrases, designed chiefly for the use of children, were printed at least five times during his lifetime –separately in 1614, 1616, 1627, and 1631, all extremely rare (a total of five copies in ESTC), and once in the Workesof 1630 –but did not reappear (barring an Aberdeen printing of 1670), until Thomas Ilive’s edition of 1693. It became extremely popularin America in the eighteenth-century, with editions in New York, Boston, Philadelphia (several of which were dedicated to Washington) and Providence. Very scarce. ESTC records copies at BL, Bodley (2, one imperfect); Pierpont Morgan, Princeton, and UCLA. There was also a ‘second edition, with amendments’ published by Ilive in the same year, with the text in a different setting. Wing T525; Adomeit B12; Bondy p.15."
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Cited/described in
Adomeit, R.E. Three centuries of thumb Bibles, B12
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271723 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Ordered from Bernard Quaritch Ltd., D 9223, 07-20-2018, Catalogue, English Books & Manuscripts Summer 2018.
Folger accession
271723