THE HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: Together With the Apocrypha. Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command of His Majesty King James I. of England. With Marginal Notes and References. To Which Are Added, An Index; An Alphabetical Table of all the Names in the Old and New Testaments, with Their Significations, Tables of Scripture Weights, Measures, and Coins.

Early Edition, with divisional titles for the Old Testament, The New Testament and Apocrypha. Illustrated with a folding map and a number of full-page engravings, collated complete. Folio, publisher's original tan calf, the spine with red lettering label gilt, compartments divided by gilt rules and with central gilt tooled ornaments. [4], 1078, [2] pp. A very good copy, the binding with some rubbing and wear from use, some browning internally due to the paper stock, but generally quite clean and well preserved throughout the text-block, some browning to the engravings as is typical.

Edizione: one of the early mathew carey bibles illustrated and complete with pedagogical renderings. <br> mathew carey was an irish-born american publisher and economist who lived and worked in philadelphia, pennsylvania. he entered the bookselling and printing business in 1775, apprenticing with the hibernian journal, or chronicle of liberty, one the most radical newspapers in the country. in 1778, it published an address to the people of ireland by benjamin franklin, and proposed that the american patriots were fighting for the same rights and freedoms sought by the irish.<br> in 1777, at the age of seventeen, carey published a pamphlet criticizing dueling. he followed this with a work criticizing the severity of the irish penal code, and another criticizing the irish parliament, then the exclusive reserve of the landed protestant ascendancy. as a result, the british house of commons threatened him with prosecution. in 1781 carey fled to paris as a political refugee. there he met benjamin franklin, the american ambassador who took carey to work in his printing office.<br> carey worked for franklin for a year before returning to ireland, where he edited two irish patriot newspapers committed to the cause of parliamentary reform, the freeman's journal and the volunteer's journal. carey gained passage on a ship to emigrate to the newly independent united states in september 1784.<br> upon carey's arrival in philadelphia, he found that franklin had recommended him to gilbert du motier, marquis de lafayette, who gave him a $400 check to establish himself. he used this money to set up a new publishing business and a book shop. he founded the pennsylvania herald (1785), the columbian magazine (1786), and the american museum.<br> the american museum was the first american periodical to treat american culture as rich and original, instead of a poor imitation of great britain's. carey printed the first american version of the douay–rheims bible in 48 weekly installments; this roman catholic edition is popularly known as the carey bible. subscribers could arrange to have it bound. it was the first roman catholic version of the bible printed in the united states. carey also printed numerous editions of the king james version, fundamental to english-speaking peoples.<br> in 1794–1796, carey published america's first atlases. his 1802 map of washington, d.c., was the first to name the stretch of land west of the united states capitol as the "mall". wiki