http://netvouz.com/BibleCollector/tag/1791?feed=rss BibleCollector's bookmarks tagged "1791" on Netvouz http://www.hbu.edu/hbu/Engravings_from_1791_folio_Bible_printed_by_Isaiah.asp?SnID=1198613647 Benjamin Franklin called Isaiah Thomas the "Baskerville of America." Thomas was one of the most notable Bible publishers in the early Republic. He began his business in Boston, where he was publisher of the newspaper Massachusetts Spy. During the Revolution, he moved his business to Boston. In planning his 1791 folio Bible, Thomas made a special effort to print a correct text for His Bible and examined over thirty copies of the King James Version, printed at different times by different publishers, to determine the best text. Several leading clergymen also examined his text. Unsorted BibleCollector Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:05:53 GMT http://rarebooks.dts.edu/viewbook.aspx?bookid=1436 First Bible of New Jersey, printed and published in Trenton by Isaac Collins; unpaginated, and translated out of the original Greek, and also included the Apocrypha, an Index, and a brief concordance. For decades afterwards, the Collins Bible was considered the most typographically accurate bible in America. Online Bible Translations > Online Facsimiles BibleCollector Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:53:36 GMT