farfel_n06_099_450

450
Philadelphia Rare Book
+ MSS Co.
Nov. 96'
$25.00

"Biblia, Das ist die Heilige Schrift"
Bible (German) Luther's version. -Dec. 8th
Germantown: 1763 Christoph Saur, the younger. 4^0
Ref: R. Petre, 161. Evans 9343.
Copy: HEHL, NN, Newberry
PML Harvard
B2. pp. 11+12. S. Matt hai
Cap. 8, 9, 10

2 vol. one, pica type. Unlike the 1st Saur Bible (1743)
its titles are entirely in black + the type is generally
set closer than in the 1st edition. First Bible printed
on American paper. 2 col. 51 lines + headline. 151x211(217)mm.
2nd ed. of the 1st Bible issued in a literary tongue
in N. America. Luther's version was adopted for the text.
(1743 ed. Price $2.50 18 schillings," but to the poor + needy we have
no price.) Issued in an ed. of 2000 copies. 20 lines type = 83mm

G. Saur Jr. born in Witgenstein near Marburg in Germany
in 1721 - only 3, when he arrived in Philadelphia with his
father. 1773 built a paper mill on the Schaylkill River.
1776 types were cast in his own foundry - the 1st of its
king in America - for the 3rd Bible ed. (pica) of 1776
(3000 cpies) which fell victim to the British invaders of
Germantown. Only 10 copies were saved by Cauer's daughter
Catherine who gave them to her children. Saver also dealt
in drugs + medicine. In 1777 he gave up management
of the printing house to 2 of his sons. He died 8/26/1784
at the age of 62.

William Parks the pritner - friend of B. Franklin (d. 1750) erected his 1st paper mill
in Virginia, located on Archer's Hope Creek, south of
WIlliamsburg - was producing paper by late 1744. His
paper has a red-brown, cast similar to the color
in Archen's Hope Creek. In 1752 the mill was sold to an
unidentified party. Unknown when the mill ceased
production - past 1770? Paper with Park's watermark
appears in the Bible of 1763 printed in Pennsylvania