Physical description
Hard cover book,The Holy Bible.
Editor. Dr. Benjamin Blayney of Hertford College, Oxford.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Date: 1871
Further Information: Black heaverly embossed pattered hardcover with a brown spine and lettering in gilt. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.
Publication type
non-fiction
Inscriptions & markings
The label on spine cover with typed text RH 220 BIB
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library
Summary
This specific 1871 Bible is a fascinating artifact from the height of 19th-century British industrial printing, combining massive theological authority with an effort to make large-scale family Bibles accessible to the general public. This specific edition represents a collaboration between two powerhouse institutions of 19th-century publishing. As one of the privileged "Royal Patent" holders in England, Oxford University Press (OUP) had the legal monopoly—alongside Cambridge University Press and the King's/Queen's Printer—to print the authorised King James Version of the Bible. Founded in 1804, the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) was a massive charitable organisation dedicated to making Bibles affordable and accessible worldwide. Because they were a society and not a printer, they commissioned official presses like OUP to mass-produce Bibles according to strict guidelines.
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