1772 2vol Holy Bible Old New Testaments Eyre And Strahan Printers To The King

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1772 2vol Holy Bible Old New Testaments Eyre And Strahan Printers To The King:
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Newly Translated out of the Original Greek and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty\'s Special Command.

By Various, King James Version.

1772 - London - C. Eyre and W. Strahan

5.5\" by 3\", unpaginated

DETAILS

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty\'s Special Command being \'The King James Bible.\' Together withThe New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Newly Translated out of the Original Greek and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty\'s Special Command to rear of volume two.

First edition printedby Eyre and Strahan, Printers to the King\'s Most Excellent Majesty

In two volumes complete.

The Authorised Version, commonly known as the King James Version, King James Bible, KJB, or KJV, is an English translation of the Christian Bible by the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King\'s Printer Robert Barker, this was the third official translation into English. The first was the Great Bible commissioned by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second was the Bishop\'s Bible of 1568.In January 1604, King James VI of Scotland and I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

William Strahan (1715 - 1785) was a Scottish printer and publisher, and a Member of Parliament.Strahan was originally apprenticed to an Edinburgh printer but became a Master Printer in London. In 1738 he was made a Freeman of the City of London and a freeman of the Stationers\' Company. Diversifying from printing to publishing, he built up a highly important and successful business, at one time employing 50 men. He was Samuel Johnson\'s chief publisher, being entrusted with the printing of Johnson\'s Dictionary, and also published the works of the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, and the historian Edward Gibbon. From 1770, he was Printer to the King (George III).

Previous owner\'s ink inscription to front blank.

CONDITION

In contemporary crushed morocco binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and slight rubbing and odd marksto boards. Front hinge to volume two strained with title page absent. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with the odd spot, spottingmore pronounced to second volumeand with some handling marks.

Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED

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