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The book of Jasher: with testimonies and notes, critical and historical, explanatory of the text. To which is prefixed, various readings, and a preliminary dissertation, proving the authenticity of the work. Translated into English [...]

Full title: The book of Jasher: with testimonies and notes, critical and historical, explanatory of the text. To which is prefixed, various readings, and a preliminary dissertation, proving the authenticity of the work. Translated into English from the Hebrew, by Flaccus Albinus Alcuin, of Britain, Abbot of Canterbury, who went a Pilgrimage into the Holy Land, and Persia, where he discovered this volume, in the city of Gazna. 4to. pp. xi, [1], f. 1, pp. 63, 9. Signatures: [a]4 b3 B-I4 K5. Half calf. A fabricated ‘lost’ Biblical book published (and written) by the typefounder, printer, and deistical polemicist Jacob Ilive (1705-1763), from an alleged eighth-century translation by Alcuin of York, after his otherwise unrecorded pilgrimage to the Holy Land, originally printed in 1751 by Ilive himself (see Bib# 4103140/Fr# 597 in this collection).

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