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BIBLE, English, New Testament. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek...Appointed to be read in churches. Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1782.
12o (160 x 95 mm). (Dampstaining, clean tear to title, H5 with triangular section at corner cut away, M2 with strip torn away at bottom, a few other leaves chipped or with marginal tears.) Contemporary calf (worn, section of backstrip defective, front joint slightly split). Provenance: Lydia Wynn (verses, 1771, and birth records on back endpaper); Catherine Rich (1881 inscription).
AN EARLY NEW TESTAMENT, PRINTED IN TRENTON DURING THE REVOLUTION, ONE OF ONLY TWO SURVIVING COPIES. The first New Testament printed in the colonies was a Cambridge 1661 edition, but subsequently, the crown strictly prohibited the printing of Bibles in the colonies; for the next century colonists were forced to purchase Bibles imported from the mother country. But with the Revolution, enterprising colonial printers were not slow to seize the opportunity. Aitken of Philadelphia printed editions of the New Testament in 1777, 1778 and 1781. The first New Testament issued in New Jersey was a 1779 Trenton edition also from Isaac Collins's press (Evans 43605). Hills also lists a 1780 printing by Collins (based on an unconfirmed reference in Nelson's Check-List of the Issues of the Press of New Jersey). No copy has been located. Thus, the present is probably the second New Testament with a New Jersey imprint. Trenton, the site of one of Washington's key early victories, remained in American hands during the remainder of the war. This copy is larger than the single copy recorded by Hills at Yale. Not in Evans, Bristol, OCLC. Hills 13; Nelson a1788.
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AN EARLY NEW TESTAMENT, PRINTED IN TRENTON DURING THE REVOLUTION, ONE OF ONLY TWO SURVIVING COPIES. The first New Testament printed in the colonies was a Cambridge 1661 edition, but subsequently, the crown strictly prohibited the printing of Bibles in the colonies; for the next century colonists were forced to purchase Bibles imported from the mother country. But with the Revolution, enterprising colonial printers were not slow to seize the opportunity. Aitken of Philadelphia printed editions of the New Testament in 1777, 1778 and 1781. The first New Testament issued in New Jersey was a 1779 Trenton edition also from Isaac Collins's press (Evans 43605). Hills also lists a 1780 printing by Collins (based on an unconfirmed reference in Nelson's Check-List of the Issues of the Press of New Jersey). No copy has been located. Thus, the present is probably the second New Testament with a New Jersey imprint. Trenton, the site of one of Washington's key early victories, remained in American hands during the remainder of the war. This copy is larger than the single copy recorded by Hills at Yale. Not in Evans, Bristol, OCLC. Hills 13; Nelson a1788.