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A leaf from a copy of The first American Bible

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Heading: (Native American)
Author: Winship, George Parker
Title: The first American Bible; a leaf from a copy of the Bible translated into the Indian language by John Eliot and printed at Cambridge in New England in the year 1663
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Merrymount Press/ Goodspeed
Date Published: 1929
Description:

20 pp. With an original leaf of the 1663 Eliot Bible. (8vo) bound in brown cloth decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine. One of 157 copies printed for Charles E. Goodspeed and Company.

The leaf present being John 6. Winship's essay recounts the translation and printing of the first complete Bible printed in America.
Condition Report: Just a bit of rubbing to board edges; toning to rear endpapers; original leaf with toning and minuscule chip to bottom corner; Near Fine.

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Heading: (Native American)
Author: Winship, George Parker
Title: The first American Bible; a leaf from a copy of the Bible translated into the Indian language by John Eliot and printed at Cambridge in New England in the year 1663
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Merrymount Press/ Goodspeed
Date Published: 1929
Description:

20 pp. With an original leaf of the 1663 Eliot Bible. (8vo) bound in brown cloth decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine. One of 157 copies printed for Charles E. Goodspeed and Company.

The leaf present being John 6. Winship's essay recounts the translation and printing of the first complete Bible printed in America.
Condition Report: Just a bit of rubbing to board edges; toning to rear endpapers; original leaf with toning and minuscule chip to bottom corner; Near Fine.

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