ued by A.G. Masch, and published at Halae Magd. in five
volumes, quarto. 1774-97. T. Llewelyn published in 1768
"Historical Account of the British or Welsh Versions and
editions of the Bible." A privately printed "List of various
editions of the Bible" was issued in 1778, which has been
attributed to Dr. Ducarel. John Lewis's "Complete History of
the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament
into English" was published in 1818, and Dr. Henry Cotton's
"List of Editions" (Oxford, 1821, 2nd edition, 1852) was
intended as an Appendix to that work. Orme's _Bibliotheca
Biblica_ was published at Edinburgh in 1824, and Hartwell
Horne's _Manual of Biblical Bibliography_ at London in 1839.
Bagster's _Bible in Every Land_ (1848), although not
strictly bibliographical, must be mentioned here, because it
gives under each language a notice of all versions published
in that language. Lowndes' British Librarian or Book
Collector's Guide. Class I. Religion and its History.
London, 1839. 8vo. Parts 1, 2, 3 are devoted to Holy
Scriptures, Biblical Commentaries, Biblical Disquisitions,
Scripture Biography, Scripture Geography, etc. The work
itself was left incomplete Dr. H. Cotton published at
Oxford, in 1855, a work entitled "Rhemes and Doway. An
Attempt to show what has been done by Roman Catholics for
the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures in English." In 1859
J.G. Shea published at New York a "Bibliographical Account
of Catholic Bibles, Testaments, and other portions of
Scripture translated from the Latin Vulgate, and printed in
the United States," and in 1861 E.B. O'Callaghan published
at Albany a "List of editions of the Holy Scriptures and
parts thereof, printed in America previous to 1860." E.
Reuss published at Brunswick, in 1872, a Bibliography of the
Greek New Testament. Dr. Isaac Hall printed a Critical
Bibliography of American Greek Testaments at Philadelphia in
1883. Mr. Henry Stevens, the eminent bibliographer, is a
special authority on Bibles, and his work, entitled "The
Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1877, or a bibliographical
description of nearly one thousand representative Bibles in
various languages, chronologically arranged" (London, 1878),
contains some of the information he possesses.
_Biography._--Oetting
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