King James Version Bibles
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
BIB.003905
Bible - Printed Book
1762
England
English
Printed on Paper
11.4 × 9.6 × 4.3 in. (29 × 24.5 × 11 cm)
Not on View
The Bentham Bible of 1762 helped establish the standard text of the King James Bible still in use today. Joseph Bentham, university printer in Cambridge, used the revised text by F. S. Parris, who had worked over two decades before his death in 1760 to correct textual errors, modernize the language, and refine the marginal notes and references. Bentham’s folio and quarto editions in 1762 would be used by Oxford scholar Benjamin Blayney, whose 1769 edition of the Bible developed Parris’s revisions further and would serve as the template for modern King James Bibles. This copy is a quarto edition, bound in a single volume.
Printed in 1762 by Joseph Bentham, Cambridge, England. Acquired by J. Derby, unknown location.[1] Acquired by the 2000s by Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie, private collector, Dallas, Texas; Purchased at auction in 2016 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.[2]
Notes: [1] J. Derby’s signature is located on the top right corner of the title page. No other information is available about this former owner at this time. [2] Sotheby’s, New York, The Bible Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie, December 5, 2016, Lot 113.
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