BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS KURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN...
by [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]
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Next to the cost of labor, paper was easily the colonial printer's greatest expense. While the best paper used in colonial British North America had to be imported, there was always demand for the lower-grade printing paper used for the bread and butter of the printer's trade: newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, and more ephemeral publications. Increasingly, such paper came to be supplied by a growing number of American paper mills, most of which were concentrated in Pennsylvania. It was on such American-made paper that Christopher Saur printed the second edition of this German-language Bible. In 1935, the watermarks on the paper of the Second Saur Bible were identified as those of William Parks, the Virginia printer and publisher of the Virginia Gazette who established a paper mill at Williamsburg in 1744.
How paper bearing his watermark came to be used in the printing of the second edition of the Saur Bible remains something of a mystery. Parks died in 1750, some thirteen years prior to the publication of the second Saur Bible in 1763. After his death, his mill was sold to an unidentified buyer for £96, 3s, 9d, a sum substantial enough to suggest that the mill continued to produce paper.
Examples of Parks' paper are notoriously difficult to identify. When folded in quarto, the watermarks tend to disappear into the folds, rendering them only partially visible. Although somewhat obscure, examples of the Parks watermark appear along the gutter of many leaves throughout this copy of the 1763 edition of the Saur Bible.
A nice copy of a significant early American Bible. EVANS 9343. SABIN 5192. SEIDENSTICKER, p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN, p.25. HILDEBURN 1877. WRIGHT, EARLY BIBLES, pp.28-54. RUMBALL-PETRE, RARE BIBLES 161. GERMANTOWN AND THE GERMANS, BIBLES: 5. Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer (Charlottesville. 1964), p.135. Edwin A.R. Rumball-Petre, America's First Bibles with a Census of 555 Extant Bibles (Portland, Me. 1940), pp.38-50. Rutherfoord Goodwin, "The Williamsburg Paper Mill of William Parks the Printer" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Vol. 31, no. 1 (1937), pp.31-3, 39-44. Thomas L. Gravell and George Miller, A Catalogue of American Watermarks, 1690-1835 (New York. 1979), pp.150, 196-7. ESTC W18552. ANB 20, pp.400-1. DAB XVII, pp. 416-7. Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America (New York. 1970), pp.408-417.
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- BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS KURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN...
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- [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Christoph Saur
- Place of Publication
- Germantown
- Date Published
- 1763.
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