A brief history of the English version of the New Testament first published at Rheims in 1582 : continued down to the present day

Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, March 1940. Small edition of perhaps 20 - 30 copies. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 23 cm,. 351-376, [44]-77 pp. Uncommon separate printing: from 1894 twenty copies of any paper printed in the Transactions were presented to the writer, and presumably a few more were run off. A paper read before the Bibliographical Society on Monday, 19 February 1940. From the introduction: "When treating of the Rheims and Douay versions of the Old and New Testaments we are not concerned with a diversity of manuscripts, various incunabula, and rare editions, but with the history of a translation which has suffered at the hands of a series of revisers and editors so that, as Cardinal Wiseman wrote over a hundred years ago: 'To call it any longer the Douay or Rhemish version is an abuse of terms. It has been altered and modified till scarcely any verse remains as it was originally published; and so far as simplicity and energy of style are concerned, the changes are in general for the worse… It had been well if Dr. Challoner's alterations had given stability to the text, and fonned a standard to which subsequent editors had conformed. But, far from this being the case, new and often important modifications have been made in every edition which has followed, till, at length, many may appear rather new versions, than revisions of the old. Wrappers somewhat brwned and edgeworn, contents Very Good, an unopened copy.