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'We mvft roote ovt Pryntinge Or Pryntinge will roote ovt vs.'

THE CAXTON EXHIBITION
MDCCC LXXVII

Or a bibliographical description of nearly
one thousand representative Bibles in various langu
ages chronologically arranged from the first Bible printed by
Gutenberg in 1450-1456 to the laft Bible printed at the Oxford
University Press the 30th June 1877 With an Introduction on the History
of Printing as illuftrated by the printed Bible from 1450 to 1877 in which is told
for the first time the true hiftory and mystery of the Coverdale Bible of 1535
Together with bibliographical notes and collations of many rare Bibles

in various languages and divers verfions printed
during the laft four centuries

Special edition revised and carefully corrected with additions

Flavoured with a squeeze of the Saturday Review's homily on Bibles

By HENRY STEVENS GMB FSA MA Etc

Sometimes Student in Yale College in Connecticut in New England Now refiding in London Bibliogra
pher and Lover of Books Fellow of the Royal Geogr & Zoological Societies of London Foreign Member
of the Amer Antiq Society Correfp Member of the Hiftorical Societies of the States of Maffachusetts New
York Connecticut Maine Vermont New Jersey Maryland Pennsylvania & Wifconfin and Secretary
of State and American Minifter near Noviomagus Blk Bld Athm Club London
And Patriarch of Skull and Bones at Yale Univerfity

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Bibliography

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SCRIBNER WELFORD & ARMSTRONG NEW-YOR

Messrs Simpkin Marshall & Co Stationers Hall Court

MdcccLxxviii

Prof. J. F. Thayer

March 20, 1902.

(977)

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London,

and

Entered, according to Act of Congrefs, in the year 1878, by Henry Stevens, of Vermont, Citizen of the United States, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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