What Antique Would You Like?

[Idlewild]

One of the few copies of the Fool’s Bible:

One of the earliest such Bibles was produced during the reign of King Charles I in the 1600’s. In Psalm 14:1 it reads, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is a God.” The crucial omission of “no” before “God” makes a fool out of a believer! The printer of this edition was fined ℒ3000 for this gross error and all copies of the Bible were suppressed immediately. The few that “got out” are now eagerly sought by some collectors as the “Fool’s Bible.”

or any of the similar funny ones:

The list of Bibles containing this type of error is rather lengthy. The “Wicked Bible” of 1631 contained the words, “Thou shalt commit adultery” in Exodus 20:14, omitting the vital “not.” The “Unrighteous Bible” of 1653 used the words, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God” (I Corinthians 6:9), again deleting the all-important “not.” A rather bizarre footnote to I Peter 3:7 appears in the “Wife Beater Bible” of 1549. It says, “And if she be not obediente and healpeful unto hym; endevoureth to beate the fere of God into her heade, that thereby she may be compelled to learne her dutye and do it.” Among the typos that slipped by the proofreader in early Bibles was the one in a 1717 Bible which contains a heading for Luke, chapter 20, which reads, “The Parable of the Vinegar,” (instead of Vineyard”). Another amusing one is to be found in the 1806 Bible containing a misprint in Ezekiel 47:10 which reads, “that fishes (instead of “fishers”) shall stand,” giving it the designation of the “Standing Fishes Bible.”

http://www.biblecollectors.org/articles/bible_misprints.htm

[Coup_Fourre]

They have that exact lamp at the antique place I frequent. It’s in good shape, too. Not sure what they want for it.