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The Self-Interpreting Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments: translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, to which are annexed, marginal references and illustrations, an exact summary of the several books, a paraphrase on the most obscure or important parts, an analysis of the contents of each chapter, explanatory notes, and evangelical reflections by the late Rev. John Brown….Vol. 1 Genesis to Revelation.

The Self-Interpreting Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments: translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, to which are annexed, marginal references and illustrations, an exact summary of the several books, a paraphrase on the most obscure or important parts, an analysis of the contents of each chapter, explanatory notes, and evangelical reflections by the late Rev. John Brown….Vol. 1 Genesis to Revelation.

May 14, 2017

Published: New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1792. Folio. Three-quarter contemporary calf. Frontispiece, title page, and last few pages in facsimile. This 1792 printing is famous as the first United States printing of the “Brown Bible” and for its “List of Subscribers,” beginning with George Washington. Language: English

The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Translated out of the Latin Vulgat by John Wiclif, S. T. P. Prebendary of Aust in the Collegiate Church of Westbury, and Rector of Lutterworth, about 1378 to which is praefixt a History of the Several Translation of the H. Bible and N. Testament, &c. into English, both in MS and Print, and of the most remarkable Editions of them since the Invention of Printing. By John Lewis, A.M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Malton, and Minister of Mergate

The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Translated out of the Latin Vulgat by John Wiclif, S. T. P. Prebendary of Aust in the Collegiate Church of Westbury, and Rector of Lutterworth, about 1378 to which is praefixt a History of the Several Translation of the H. Bible and N. Testament, &c. into English, both in MS and Print, and of the most remarkable Editions of them since the Invention of Printing. By John Lewis, A.M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Malton, and Minister of Mergate

January 17, 2017

First printing of Wycliffe’s New Testament.