Thursday, April 27, 2023

1832 The Apocryphal New Testament (Boston: N. H. Whitaker, 1832. Early American Bible. Rare First-State Misprint.)

1832

The Apocryphal New Testament,

Being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed, in the first four centuries, to Jesus Christ, his apostles, and their companions, and not included in the New Testament by its compilers.

Translated, and now first collected into one volume, with prefaces and tables, and various notes and references from the last London Edition.

Early American Bible ~ Rare First-State with Misprinted Title Page ("APOCRYAHAL")

Publisher:

Boston: N. H. Whitaker, 1832.

Features:
First printing, first state of the rare Whitaker edition.
Measures 7.5 by 4.8 inches.
Original publisher’s binding
290 pages.

Extremely rare first-state version with the misprinted title ("APOCRYAHAL NEW TESTAMENT"), which was corrected in subsequent states of the first print run.


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