CURIOUS EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE

Due to printers' errors, or to the curious rendering of certain words into English, a number of early editions of the Bible have become famous as curiosities. The most noted, with their peculiar designations, are the following:

"BREECHES" BIBLE (1560)

The Geneva version is often known as the "BREECHES" BIBLE from its rendering of Gen. 111:7, making themselves breeches out of fig-leaves instead of aprons.

"BUG" BIBLE (1551)

Psalms XCI:5 in this version is rendered "afraid of bugs by night." The authorized version reads "Terror by night."

"MURDERERS" BIBLE (1801)

In this one, an error in the sixteenth verse of St. Jude the word "murderers" is used instead of "murmurers."

"PLACE-MAKERS" BIBLE (1562)

So called from a typographical error in St. Matt., "Blessed are the place-makers" instead of peace-makers.

"PRINTERS" BIBLE

Cotton Mather tells of a Bible printed prior to 1702 in which

King David exclaims "Printers" (instead of "Princes") have persecuted me without cause."

"TREACLE" BIBLE (1568)

In this edition Jer. vii:22 is rendered "Is there no treacle (instead of balm) in Gilead?"

"VINEGAR" BIBLE (1717)

So named from the headline of St. Luke XX, which reads "The Parable of the Vinegar" instead of the "vineyard."

"WICKED" BIBLE (1632)

So called from the fact that the negative is left out of the Seventh Commandment (Exodus XX:14).

FAVORED TYPE-FACES FOR BOOK WORK

CASLON

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My start as a book-collector was sudden and without conscious premeditation; I cannot fully account for it. The fact that I had been a bookseller for many years does not seem to me an adequate explanation, for the books I began with enthusiasm to accumulate were all first and early editions of authors none of whom were then living, while from my business experience I had become familiar only with current publications.

It happened, when in March, 1888, I came to New York, that among my new acquaintances was a man prominent in the councils of the Grolier Club. He suggested that I join the club, which was about to enlarge its membership and move to more commodious quarters. Cursory examinations of various collec

CASLON

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My start as a book-collector was sudden and without conscious premeditation; I cannot fully account for it. The fact that I had been a bookseller for many years does not seem to me an adequate explanation, for the books I began with enthusiasm to accumulate were all first and early editions of authors none of whom were then living, while from my business experience I had become familiar only with current publications.

It happened, when in March, 1888, I came to New York, that among my new acquaintances was a man prominent in the councils of the Grolier Club. He suggested that I join the club, which was about to enlarge its membership and move to more commodious quarters. Cursory examinations of various collections of books and allied articles exhibited

DEVINNE

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My start as a book-collector was sudden and without conscious premeditation; I cannot fully account for it. The fact that I had been a bookseller for many years does not seem to me an adequate explanation, for the books I began with enthusiasm to accumulate were all first and early editions of authors none of whom were then living, while from my business experience I had become familiar only with current publications.

It happened, when in March, 1888, I came to New York, that among my new acquaintances was a man prominent in the councils of the Grolier Club. He suggested that I join the club, which was about to enlarge its membership and move to more commodious quarters. Cursory examinations of various

MODERN

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My start as a book-collector was sudden and without conscious premeditation; I cannot fully account for it. The fact that I had been a bookseller for many years does not seem to me an adequate explanation, for the books I began with enthusiasm to accumulate were all first and early editions of authors none of whom were then living, while from my business experience I had become familiar only with current publications.

It happened, when in March, 1888, I came to New York, that among my new acquaintances was a man prominent in the councils of the Grolier Club. He suggested that I join the club, which was about to enlarge its membership and move to more commodious quarters. Cursory examinations of various collections of books and allied articles exhibited under club auspices left me apathetic. Perhaps I became