1751 Folio First Edition King James Bible Printed By Thomas Baskett-Bound With 16 Extra Illustrations And Was Once Owned By George Barclay Of Burford Lodge

Importance: A King James Bible printed in London by Thomas Baskett (1709-1761) and published by Robert Baskett in 1751 during the reign of King George II, after he inherited his father’s title as King’s Printer. This was his first Bible in folio format that he printed. In 1751, the Bible was printed and published in Great Britain during the last full year of the Julian Calendar, right before the Gregorian Calendar was adopted on September 14, 1752.  His father, John Baskett (1664-1742), began printing Bibles in 1711 in London and was famously known for printing the 1716-1717 Folio King James Bible. The Bible was known as the Vinegar Bible, because of the headline above Luke 20 reading Parable of the Vinegar instead of Parable of the Vinyard, and it had so many printing errors that it was also called a Baskett-full-of-errors. After his father died, Thomas Baskett continued with the family business of printing high quality Bibles and other works until his death. The Bible uses William Ca