The Holy Bible; Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches

Oxford: John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1717. Leather Bound. Folio. Measures 52 x 34 x 14 cm. Bound in leather, likely late 19th century. Binding split at rear joint. Some damage to text block, especially prelims; a few loose pages, some chips and tears, foxing, some pages darkened. Three batches of restoration are evident, the most recent carefully documented, a fourth round required. Herbert 942A: "A magnificent edition, printed in large type. With many plates at the beginning and end of books, engraved on steel from the designs of various artists. Some of the initial letters are similarly engraved. Unfortunately the book contained many misprints, and earned the nickname 'A Baskett-ful of Errors'... From the misprint The Parable of the Vinegar (for vineyard) in the headline above Luke xx, this edition is commonlty known as the 'Vinegar Bible'." "John Baskett (1665-1742) attained the title of "printer to the King's most excellent majesty" in 1709, but his publishing career turned for the worse when he issued this richly-engraved folio Bible in 1717. Quick to point out the Bible's numerous misprints, Baskett's competitors branded it "a Baskett-ful of Errors." The edition's more lasting nickname has been the "Vinegar Bible," because the words "Parable of the Vinegar" appear at the top of the page containing Luke 20:9, Christ's Parable of the Vineyard." - smu.edu Special Collections.