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[Leaf Book]. Robert R. Dearden and Douglas S. Watson. The Bible of the Revolution. Signer's Edition, Containing Original...
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One of Fifty Copies of One of the Most Important American Leaf Books
[Leaf Book]. Robert R. Dearden and Douglas S. Watson.
The Bible of the Revolution. Signer's Edition, Containing
Original Leaves of both Old and New Testaments & an Essay
Concerning It. San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert
Grabhorn for John Howell, 1930. First edition, one of only 50
copies of the Signer's Edition (this copy unnumbered). Small
quarto. [2], 34 pages. With four original leaves from the Aitken
Bible (1782, two from the Book of Micah, and
two from the Book of Acts), a leaf from
Benjamin Franklin's Confession of Faith (1745)
and a facsimile of John Adams' bookplate (not called-for). The
standard edition only had two leaves from the Aitken Bible. With a
facsimile of a three-page letter from George Washington discussing
Aitken's Bible. Unique to the Signer's Edition, is a
frontispiece of the signatures of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Bound in modern full red levant morocco, spine
ruled and lettered in gilt, five raised bands. Light minor
occasional foxing. A handsome, fine copy of an important American
leaf book.The Aitken Bible was the first complete bible in English published in the newly formed United States of America, and the Congress of the Confederation officially endorsed it; it became the only bible to ever have a congressional endorsement.
Grabhorn Bibliography 131.
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