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Jant B. McCall
Hot Springs, AR.
March '08
$27.95

Bible. English. Authorized 4^0
Worcester, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas, 1792.
Ref: Sabin H. 5173, Evans 23185, Wright pp. 74-88,
Copy: Yale, HEHL (f^0) ed., Indiana Univ. Herbert #1356
Harvard
Psalms. p. 537-8 (8 3/4 x 11")
60 lines and headlines. 2 columns. Roman and Italic types.
Marginal references.
Psalm 64:2 --> 68:21.

1310 pp. Two engraved frontispieces.
1st quarto ed. Old T. (p7-1014) and New (p1017-1276)
John Brown's Concordance.

In the mid-1790s Thomas was as the height of his
activities as a publisher. He employed about 150
people in Worcester alone. His back list had great
depth in textbooks and Bibles and a range that was
unrivaled. By the end of the century I. Thomas
was one of the nation's richest men, with a fortune
estimated at over $150,000. Though he was the
nation's 1st great publisher, Thomas is more often
remembered for 2 things. The 1st in his History of
Printing in America and the 2nd in the founding
of the American Antiquarian Society.