Excerpt from History of the Bassandyne Bible: The First Printed in Scotland, With Notices of the Early Printers of Edinburgh We cannot but feel amused if we endeavour to picture to our minds the consternation excited by the first printed Bibles exposed for sale. Con ceive a meeting of two fat friars, both bibliophiles and connoisseurs in manuscripts, quite in raptures over the neat clean copies of the Vulgate which they have managed to secure at an obvious bargain from the German stranger. Each praises his own through all the forms of the superlative. At last the volumes are brought forth and diligently com pared, when, to the amazement and horror of the two reverend fathers, they are found to be exact counterparts - neither can distinguish his own. They fear to touch the Doppelgc'inger - they fear to burn their fingers - there must evidently have been some fell sinister influence at work here; but then arises the question whether his Satanic majesty could endure the sight of the Word of Truth long enough to produce such exact copies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.