Report from the Select Committee on the Queen's Printers' Patent; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and Minutes of Evidence (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...as they are published bv the Queen's printer, or by either of the Universities?--I think not one except Bagster's. I am not sure that his marginal references are the same as those of the Queen's printer. 49. Mr. Mills. Would the publication of this book of Pasham's, which you have produced, be legal, the notes having been printed and then cut off?--If the patent is valid, that is a mere colourable evasion. 4.50. Mr. Bright. You have given it as your opinion that the public mind would be satisfied with a guarantee. Do you consider that the guarantee you have referred to would be sufficient, namely, that the Bible would generally, or altogether, be issued under the sanction of some of the existing religious societies?--I think that would be a perfectly efficient and satisfactory guarantee. May I take the opportunity of saying here, that a Unitarian Bible and the Douay Bible have been published. I printed the Douay Bible myself, and, of course, it was without interference on the part of the privileged printers. I had a singular illustration of the care with which the text of that Bible was preserved. It was read most minutely by a Doctor of the Roman-catholic Church, and this circumstance occurred: I saw in the Book of Jeremiah the phrase " a remnant in Judea." I knew that could not be correct, believing that that the land Was not so called at the time of Jeremiah. I referred to the Mr. C. Child. Vulgate, and I found it spelt "Judaea." In the Septuagint I found KaraAtwia TM 'lowSa, meaning Juda and not Judea. I ventured to correct it, presuming that l Augujt l859 it was a mere literal error; but I was compelled to print a cancel, on the ground that even if the Vulgate had such a typographical error, still it was the authority, and must be f...