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Show FORTY BIBLES A MINUTE. Quick Work In Publication Shewn by English Press. Tile Bible publications of the Oxford Ox-ford 1'nlverslty Press have been Issued Is-sued fur 3in years and can be pub-llshisl pub-llshisl In I'll Intigtingea and dialects, Ordi-is for Hi. null Hlblea are qulto common. An order for half a million copies can bo readily filled (In an average from thirty to forty Blldea are furnished every minute. There are 11(1 different edition of the Oxford Ox-ford Hlblea in Kngllah, varying from the magnificent folio edlllou of pulpit use to the "brilliant" Bible, the smallest small-est edition of the acrlpture In tha world. Of the revlaed version fourteen cdl-tlona cdl-tlona are published. More than a million mil-lion copl.-a of the revlaed New Testament Testa-ment had been ordered before publication publi-cation In MM. and It la claimed thai (ho worklngmen of the establishment refused a bribe of soma four thousand thou-sand pounds to furnish a copy of th book before the day of lisue. At the banquet hall at th four Itundredlh celebration of the beginning begin-ning nf the art of printing In F.ngland by Canton, (lladstone exhibited Is copy of the lllble which had been printed and bound entirely aim midnight of Ibe preceding day. Tha preparation of the "India paper" uaed by the Oxford University press Is business secret of great value. The largest folio Blblo printed In Oxford measures IV by it Inches, aud no erratum haa aa yet been found In It. The "Brilliant Text Bible" measures 3 V by 2 '-a Inches and la three fourths of an Inch thick. Caxton Magazine. |
