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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with ye former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Tho. Buck, and Roger Daniel. Printers to the University, 1638, engraved general title (detached and torn with loss), letterpress New Testament title with imprint dated 1638, Apocrypha present, double-column roman text with few decorative woodcut initials, small rust holes to L2, 2C2, 2D1, 2L4 & 3H1 in Old Testament, few closed tears (2S2 with old stitched repair), bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into English metre, by Th. Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie, 1638, ornamental border and woodcut device to title, red ruled borders to all titles and text throughout volume, some marginal fraying mostly to leaves at front and rear of volume, last few leaves at rear of volume detached and torn with slight loss, toning and light dust-soiling, occasional marks etc., without marbled free endpapers, pastedowns with 18th & 19th century genealogical entries pasted in (torn & worn with loss), contemporary morocco with blind panelled and decorated boards (formerly gilt but now very faint), lacking spine with cloth spine strip partly attached with wear to boards particularly at spine edge where old repairs previously attached, lacking ties, folio (380 x 240mm), together with a defective Missale Romanum, circa 1700, lacking title, text in red & black, decorative woodcut initials and few full-page engraved illustrations, some toning, without free endpapers, upper pastedown with the signature of John Trafford (1752-1815) of Croston, Lancashire, dated 1806, contemporary sheep over wooden boards, lacking spine and upper board detached, worn, folio (Qty: 2) Herbert 520; Darlow & Moule 403; STC 2331. 'The authentique corrected Cambridge Bible, revised Mandato Regio, by the learned Doctor Ward, Doctor Goad of Hadley, Mr. Boyse, Mr. Mead, &c., and printed by the elaborate industry of Thomas Buck Esquire and Mr. Roger Daniel in folio in 1638.' (William Kilburne's tract Dangerous Errors in Several late printed Bibles ..., 1659, reprinted in the Introduction to Loftie's A Century of Bibles, 1872, p.35.) In this edition, thus favourably noticed by Kilburne, the work of correction begun in the folio Cambridge Bible of 1629 was carried further. The revisers took special pains to render uniform the use of italics; and they also introduced a certain number of new readings: e.g. Matt. xii. 23, Is not this the sonne of David? (for Is this ...), and 1 John v. 12 ... hath not the Sonne of God (of God added). Here first occurs the famous reading in Acts vi. 3, ... whom ye may appoint (for ... whom we ... ). This alteration has often been ascribed to the Puritans, and was reputed to have cost Cromwell a bribe of £1000; yet here it is found as early as 1638, in a Bible prepared under the royal sanction. This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762. (Herbert/ Darlow & Moule)