The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.

Item Number: 143804

New York: American Bible Society, 1816.

Early 19th century American King James Bible. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt title to the spine, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition.

Bible printing in America was limited in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with most Bibles being supplied by British and European printers. With advances in printing techniques and machinery, combined with demand, by the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Bible became the “most printed, most distributed, and most read written text in North America" (Gutjahr, An American Bible, 185).