Robert Aitken: 1734 - 1802

Robert Aitken, Printer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . USA

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"The New Testament . . . R. Aitken: Philadelphia.   1777."--D&M The earliest edition of the English New Testament avowedly printed in America. "The Holy Bible . . . R. Aitken: Philadelphia.   1782,81."--D&M The earliest edition of the English Bible avowedly printed in America. The second leaf bears the Recommendation of Congress.   No Apocrypha. "printed "the Aitken Bible"--the first complete English Bible printed in America" (1782)   [Info only: per David Barton]

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