The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues

by Bible, Julia Evelina - Smith

$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Original publisher’s brown pebble-grain cloth, blind stamped boards, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt First edition of the first complete English Bible translated by a woman, a touchstone of American printing, feminism, and religious scholarship in the original publisher's binding. Born in Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1792, Julia Evelina Smith taught herself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French while earning a living as a schoolteacher and, later, as an

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