Hanson Collection 1 - Pages from Famous Bibles

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This collection contains images of the leaves from Otto Ege's portfolio Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine centuries, 1121-1935 A.D. Select the link to a zoomable image to see the image in more detail.

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Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 62
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Oxford. Printed at the University Press. King James Version printed in a special cutting of “Centaur” type by Bruce Rogers, who also established the format, typographical layout, and for six years supervised the printing at the University Press. A unique copy of this Bible, printed on special paper was presented by Mr.Rogers to Library of Congress. The edition was limited to two hundred copies. It is a Bible in the “Great Tradition,” and equals, if it does not excel, any other Bible produced since the invention of printing, in beauty, dignity, and legibility. This is the supreme achievement of the greatest contemporary typographer."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 61
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "London. The Nonesuch Press. King James Version. Typography by Francis Meynell; printing by the Oxford University Press. The publications of the Nonesuch Press are noted for presenting significant texts in a beautiful format, for book collectors who “also use books for reading.”
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 58
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "New York. Dodd, Mead, and Company. A new translation from the Hebrew into English under the direction of the great Shakespearean scholar, Horace Howard Furness. Original sources used by the translator are indicated by the background of different colors. Eight tints or colors were used in Joshua along: dark red, light red, dark blue, light blue, purple, green, brown, and orange. The cost of editing and color printing was so great, that only a few books of the Bible were issued and the undertaking was then discontinued."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 59
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "The Doves Press No. 1 The Terrace Hammersmith. The King James Version, edited by Rev. F. H. Scrivener for the syndics of the University Press, Cambridge, England, and printed by Emery Walker and T. J Cobden Sanderson. The work is printed in “Doves” type, a “translation” of the famous fifteen century font of Jenson by Walker. The Doves type is frequently referred to as the fines formal book type of all time. The text was set by one compositor and printed on a one-hand press. This monumental Bible is, nevertheless, one of the greatest typographical masterpieces produced."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 54
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, Edinburgh. A special issue of the Bible, consisting of twenty-five copies only. Dibdin’s Library Companion calls this “a more beautiful book than the vaunted diamond-letter Bible of Richelieu.” (Darlow and Moule 1019)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 56
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Augusta: Confederate States Bible Society Printed by Wood, Hanleiter Rice and Co. Atlanta, Georgia. This 18 mo. edition of the New Testament was the sole publication of the Confederate States Bible Society, founded in the year 1862. It is the first edition of the Scriptures to be printed in the Confederacy. The issue consisted of less than 500 copies. "
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 55
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Londini: Gulielmus Pickering. The smallest Greek Testament even published. The size of type employed is mown as “diamond”, and there are sixteen lines to an inch. William Pickering was England’s most important bookseller and publisher at this time. His series of miniature books, now known as Diamond Classics, were then regarded, and still are, as a great achievement in typesetting and printing. (Darlow and Moule 4816)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 57
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "New York: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway In 1870 the convocation of Canterbury appointed a committee to revise the King James Version. Scholars of many denominations from England and America shared in this undertaking. Strict rules eliminated radicalism; yet 36,191 changes were made in the New Testament alone. The reception of this work was unprecedented. It was released in May, and before the end of the year over 2,000,000 copies were sold in London, and nearly 400,000 in New York. Several newspapers even went so far as to print the entire text. (May 22)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 53
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, No.71 North Third Street. The first translation of the Septuagint into English by Charles Thomson, who was the first Secretary of Congress, and who retired from that position to continue his Biblical studies (1789). The importance of this version, the result of twenty years’ labor with little or no assistance of reference material or scholars, has frequently been recognized. It was freely consulted by the revision committee of 1881. (Darlow and Moule 1006)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 49
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville. Baskerville, England’s greatest type-founder and printer, had announced his retirement from active printing the year before. He returned to the press, however, and hastily printed this folio Bible to compete with a crudely printed one issued by his most vituperative enemy, Nicholas Boden, and his former senior workman, Robert Martin. This Bible, although far inferior to his Cambridge Bible, was a financial success."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 51
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Worcester: Isaiah Thomas. The first quarto Bible in English published in America. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, whom Franklin called the “Baskerville of America”. Its price was seven dollars, and to make payment easy, there was a provision that “the Publisher will receive one half the sum…in the following articles, viz. Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, Butter, or Pork, if delivered at his store in Worcester, or at the store of himself and Company in Boston, by the 20th day of December, 1790.” Thomas used thirty different editions of the King James Bible in preparing this text, and had every sheet examined by the clergyman of Worcester. "
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 50
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Wilmington: Printed and Sold by Peter Brynberg and Samuel Adams. This exceedingly rare testament appears to have escaped all bibliographers, including such authorities as J.Wright (Early Bibles of America); E.B. O’Callaghan (A list of Editions of the Holy Scriptures and Parts thereof, Printed in America previous to 1860); and P.Marion Simms (The Bible in America). The next issue in Delaware appeared in 1802, under the imprint of Peter Brynberg along. On account of the poor quality of paper used in Colonial Bibles and the hard service they received, examples are in many instances scarcer than in the case of the monumental Gutenberg Bible, issued nearly four hundred years earlier."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 52
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Excudebat Isaias Thomas. Jun: Wigorniae, Massachusettensi. The earliest Greek Testament printed in America. the Worchester Press also produced some of the early American editions of the English Bible. Franklin called it the “Baskerville (Press) of America.” This Testament was reprinted by the same printer in Boston (1814). (Darlow and Moule 4775)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 46
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Sauer. The second edition of the first Bible issued in a literary tongue in North America, printed by Christopher Sauer, the younger. Luther’s version was adopted for the text. The third issue of 3000 (1776) was still unbound when the Battle of Germantown was fount (1777), and nearly the entire edition of this Dunkard publisher was used by the British soldiers for gun wading. A paper mill, a foundry, and a bindery were established by the versatile Sauer for his work. Sauer wrote: 'The price of our nearly finish Bible is plain binding with a clasp will be eighteen shillings, but to the poor and needed we have no price.'"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 45
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur. The first issue, in American, of the Bible printed in a European language. Luther’s version was used, with additions from the mystic Berlenburg Bible and an appendix to the New Testament prepared by Saur himself. The printer encountered great difficulties and opposition as a result of limited finances, lack of type, and the religious controversies of the time. Lutheran ministers and the Schwenkfelders preached against Saur, who classed as an “arch-Separatist”. Of the 1200 copies which were printed and which required more than two decades to be disposed of, only about 150 copies are known to be in existence. Darlow and Moule 4240)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 47
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University. The magnum opus of Baskerville, England’s greatest type-founder and printer. For the printing of this imperial folio Bible, he moved his press from Birmingham to Cambridge. As he was able to secure only 264 subscribers (at four guineas each) for the edition of 1250 copies, he had to borrow poundsymbol2000 to complete the work. It is a paradox that Baskerville should issued, at great financial loss, several edition of the Bible when he “unblushingly avowed not only his disbelief of, but his contempt for revealed religion, and that in terms too gross for repetition.” His Cambridge Bible is one of the four monumental printed editions— the other three being the Gutenberg 42 Line Bible, the Doves Press Bible, and the Rogers Oxford Lectern Bible."
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 48
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "London: W.Richardson and S.Clark. This original version, on which Anthony Purver, a member of the Society of Friends, is said to have spent thirty years, was never recognized by the Society, and was never reprinted. Purver invested and lost practically all his money in the venture. (Darlow and Moule 862)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 43
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "S. Green, Cambridge. A lead from the second edition of Eliot’s Bible, revised by the editor, with the assistance of John Cotton. the Indian Bible (first issued in 1663) was the first scripture printed in North America, and also the first versions prepared for a pagan people in their own language. John Eliot preformed the Herculean task of learning the difficult Algonquin tongue, of translation, unaided, the entire Bible in this unknown and unwritten language, of overcoming many technical difficulties, and of then teaching the Indians to read their own tongue. Samuel Green, the printer, was aided greatly by James Printer, an Indian compositor and corrector of the press. “Wohkukquohsinwog Quoshod tumwaenuog” (The prophets are ended) is a specimen of the difficulties encountered. The language is now extinct. (Darlow and Moule 6737)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 42
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Stockholmiae: Nicolai Wankif. The texts are printed in four columns across two pages: Gothic, Icelandic, swedish, and Latin. The editor, G. Stjernhjelm, also supplied a dissertation on the origin of language, and a glossary. (Darlow and Moule 1448)"
Ege Famous Bibles Leaf 44
(Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Special Collections, 1954) Ege, Otto F. 1888-1951, editor
This image is from a collection created by Etta Hanson and given to the College in 1954. All items are from Otto Ege's estate. The leaf was contained and mounted in a mat created by Otto Ege, as were all other leaves in this collection. There is a typed description at the bottom of the mat, which reads: "Oxford. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University. Baskett and his heirs, with their extension “patents” were the Bible “monopolists” for ninety years. Their carelessly printed editions, sometimes with 20000 errors, caused the work to be nicknamed “The Basketful of Errors.” A royal order in 1724 demanded improved quality of paper, correctness of text, and a more reasonable price, to be imprinted on the title-page. Results are reflected in this Oxford edition which is almost free from the errors of earlier editions. "