The Holy Bible: Containing The Old & New Testaments: Translated Out Of The Original Tongues and with The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, With Marginal Notes and References. Together With The Apocrypha.

Item Number: 142191

Lunenburg, MA: Published and Sold by Edmund Cushing, 1829.

Early 19th century American Family Bible, printed by Edmund Cushing of Lunenburg Massachusetts. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco, illustrated with plates. The Frederick Kingsley Family Bible with family notes and a number of documents of provenance laid in. In very good 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).