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  • 31 - The Bible trade

  • from I - RELIGIOUS BOOKS
  • Edited by Michael F. Suarez, SJ, University of Virginia, Michael L. Turner, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    29 October 2009, pp 601-612

  • Summary

    The history of the office of the King's Printer in England is a complex one, reflected in the imprints of London Bibles. From 1743, when Cambridge resumed Bible printing, and more particularly from the late 1760s, when the Baskett interest at Oxford had come to an end and Eyre had become King's Printer, there was competition within England among the three privileged printers. From 1743 there was an uninterrupted flow of Bibles and prayer books from Cambridge. This chapter discusses three episodes in the history of Bible printing at Cambridge in the eighteenth century. The Oxford Bible press was the most active of the three privileged printers in England in the eighteenth century, though when members of the Baskett family were concurrently printers to the university and King's Printers there is the possibility that imprints do not reflect the true place of printing. The chapter explains three notable editions bearing Oxford imprints.

  • 21 - The Bible trade

  • from VERNACULAR TRADITIONS
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 455-473

  • Summary

    The only English-language version of the Bible published in Mary's reign was a New Testament in octavo printed in Geneva in 1557 by Protestant exiles. The King's Printer's privilege in the Authorized Version was (and remains) qualified: by virtue of royal charters granted to them separately the universities of Oxford and Cambridge could also claim the right to print it and thereby to share in the considerable profits that might be made from it. When royal authority collapsed in the early 1640s the Bible privilege ceased to be of value. The shortage was met in part by unauthorized editions imported from Holland. The Book of Common Prayer was treated in the same way in the printing house in being equipped with press figures and paper-quality marks when necessary. It differed, however, from the Bible in not apparently being pirated. The revisions were accommodated by setting the whole text anew, producing cancels, ranging from paste-over slips to whole gatherings.