A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . --land, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. But the monumental task of Sowers life was theprinting and publishing of the Holy Bible. As earlyas 1740, Sower felt impelled to print the Bible. In1742, he issued a prospectus,(^ and in 1743 the royalquarto Bible, the first Bible in a European tonguepublished in America. It was 7^x10 inches, andcontained 1,248 pages. The details of this undertaking are so many and socomplex that they must be deferred to a subsequentvolume, for which the writer has for several yearsbeen gathering data
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . --land, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. But the monumental task of Sowers life was theprinting and publishing of the Holy Bible. As earlyas 1740, Sower felt impelled to print the Bible. In1742, he issued a prospectus,(^ and in 1743 the royalquarto Bible, the first Bible in a European tonguepublished in America. It was 7^x10 inches, andcontained 1,248 pages. The details of this undertaking are so many and socomplex that they must be deferred to a subsequentvolume, for which the writer has for several yearsbeen gathering data. This work will (D. V.) appearunder the title, The Life and Labors of the twoChristopher Sowers. The difficulties of the undertaking are stated by hisown descendant as follows: Stereotyping had notbeen invented and the magnitude of the undertakingat that time can now be scarcely estimated. Onlyforms of four pages could be set up at a time, on (i) See advcrtispment of this in Bradfords Mcicwy. Mnrch 1742. BIBLIA, Sxam.
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