Smith Julia Translator (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.First printing listed. No price on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 40 pages. Spanish language. 9.84x0.32x9.84 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. German language. 7.05x0.79x10.94 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.01x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 450 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Small 4to (10 x 7"), original brown cloth, gilt title at spine and upper cover, speckled edges. Title leaf, [1]892 pp. (Old Test.), [1]276 pp. (New Test.). CONDITION: A very good, bright copy, some light discoloration along the fore-edge of the rear cover, but otherwise nearly flawless. A remarkably well-preserved example of the first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (17921886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of women's rights by demonstrating what a woman might accomplish. However, she did not publish her work for another twenty years. In her preface, Smith notes: "It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. I had studied Latin and Greek at school, and began by translating the Greek New Testament, and then the Septuagint. I soon gave my attention to the Hebrew, and studied it thoroughly, and wrote it out word for word, giving no ideas of my own, but endeavoring to put the same English word for the same Hebrew or Greek word, everywhere. It took me about seven years to accomplish the five translations, at least." In her radical and controversial work, The Woman's Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton noted of Smith's translation that copies "will be a rarity in the next century and will be much sought after by bibliomaniacs, to say of nothing of scholars who will want it for its real value." A lovely copy of this landmark Bible. REFERENCES: Simms, The Bible in America, pp. 14950; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible, p. 151.…

First edition of the first complete translation of the Bible into English done by a woman, Julia E. Smith (1792-1886), of Glastonbury Connecticut. One of 1,000 copies printed. Quarto, bound in full modern calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An invaluable Bible for its period which remains a rare translation. In her preface to the present volume, Smith states: "It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. It has occupied the time and attention of the wisest and most learned of all ages, believing, as the world has believed, that such only could give the correct rendering of the language in which the Bible was written. It may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advantages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate. It has occupied the time and attention of the wisest and most learned of all ages, believing, as the world has believed, that such only could give the correct rendering of the language in which the Bible was written." Smith began her translation in 1847 and finished it in 1855. In 1876, at 84 years of age, some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies. The translation was one of only a few contemporary English translations out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of the Revised Version in 1881â"1894. This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period. The translation also appears to have been banned in its history, likely due to the translator being a woman, and it remains a rare translation.…