The Holy Bible : Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues [and with a Preface] (by Julia E. Smith)
Published by Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1876
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since December 7, 2016
Condition: Used
£ 6,599.34
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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 (1792–1886), 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. 149–50; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman’s Bible, p. 151.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Holy Bible : Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues [and with a Preface] (by Julia E. Smith)
- Author
- Smith, Julia, translator
- Publisher
- Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1876
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, Literature, Women
James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
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James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock includes fine and rare books in a variety of fields, including Americana & Early American Imprints, Trade Catalogs, Book Arts & Printing History, Early Photography, Plate Books, Literary First Editions, and Signed & Inscribed Books, as well as Autographs & Manuscripts, Maps, Prints, Photographs and Ephemera. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and have exhibited for many years at numerous antiquarian book fairs in the northeast and in California.…
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