4 volumes, large folio (559 x 356 mm). With 38 original leaves from American bibles, each tipped in and matted with printed captions; accompanied by bibliographical descriptions and commentary, loose as issued; together laid into four folding cloth cases with red morocco lettering-pieces on spines and covers. [Laid in:] Original prospectus booklet.

LIMITED EDITION, number 20 of 100 copies, CONTAINING 38 ORIGINAL LEAVES FROM BIBLES PRINTED IN AMERICA BETWEEN 1663 AND 1878. "This landmark publication presents, for the first time, the history of the Bible in America through a display of thirty-eight original leaves from the most precious and significant editions of the Scriptures printed in the present geographical area of the United States" (from the prospectus).

Comprises: 8 leaves from the Bible in Indigenous Languages including the 1663 Eliot Bible (the first in any language printed in America); 10 leaves from the Bible in English from the 18th century including the 1782 Aitken Bible (the first complete English-language Bible printed in America); 10 leaves from the Bible in English from the 19th century including the first bible printed for the blind in America (1842); and 10 leaves from the first American Bibles printed in other languages including the first Bible in German (1742). Not in Disbound and Dispersed.