King James Version Bibles
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
- Collection ID
- BIB.004019
- Type
- Bible - Printed Book
- Date
- 1762
- Geography
- England
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Printed on Paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 9.3 × 4 in. (28.6 × 23.5 × 10.2 cm)
- Exhibit Location
- 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 of 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.
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 of 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 2016 by Craig Lampe, The Bible Museum, Goodyear, Arizona; Privately purchased by 2016 by Dr. Andrew Stimer, private collector, California; Privately purchased in 2016 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Donated in 2018 to The Signatry, Overland Park, Kansas, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Printed in 1762 by Joseph Bentham, Cambridge, England. Acquired by 2016 by Craig Lampe, The Bible Museum, Goodyear, Arizona; Privately purchased by 2016 by Dr. Andrew Stimer, private collector, California; Privately purchased in 2016 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Donated in 2018 to The Signatry, Overland Park, Kansas, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
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