Show FORTY BIBLES A MINUTE qu ck work in cation shown by engi engl sh press the bible publications of the ox ford university press have been la is sued for or years and can be pub dished in languages and dialects orders for 10 bibles are quite common an order for half halt ja million copies can be readily filled on an average from thirty to forty bibles are furnished every minute there are different editions of the ox ford B bles in english varying from the magnificent folio edition of pulpit use to the brilliant bible the small est edition of the scriptures in the world of the revised version fourteen edi edl eions are published more than a mil lion copies of the revised new testa ment had been ordered before bubli cation in 1881 and it is claimed that the workingmen of the establishment refused a bribe of some four thou sand pounds to furnish a copy of the book before the day of issue at the banquet hall at the tour four hundredth th celebration of the begin ning of the art of printing in england by caxton gladstone exhibited a copy of the bible which had been printed and bound entirely since midnight of the preceding day the preparation of the india paper used by the oxford university press Is a business secret of great value the largest folio bible printed in oxford measures 19 by 12 inches and no erratum has as yet been found in it the tae brilliant text bible measures 3 33 by 2 inches and Is three fourths of an inch thick caxton magazine |