1881 KJV & RSV. Rare Seaside Library First Edition of King James and Revised Standard Parallel.

A scarce imprint demonstrating just how significant and controversial the 1881 revisions of the New Testament were understood to be. The fact that Seaside Library issued the present is significant. They usually trafficked in classics and literature; not quite "dime novel" stuff, but with a flair for what was best selling and most interesting . . . and occasionally sensationalist. They made good on titles by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and with a very much sought edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 

That they saw the new revisions as warranting enough popular interest to devote two full issues to the publication of it it in its entirety, plus notes, is telling. A very rare survivor, as they were often published in large format wraps and often did not survive. 

Both parts present in a single volume, and rather nicely preserved. 

The Seaside Library. The New Testament. Volume XLIX. No. 1000. Revised Version of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated Out of the Greek, Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611, Compared with the Most Ancient Authorities and the Authorized English Version of the New Testament, with Introduction, and Various Readings from the Three Most Celebrated Manuscripts of the Original Greek Text. By Constantine Tischendorf. In Parallel Columns on Same Pages. Part I. Containing the Gospels. New York. George Munro. 1881. 105pp.

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The Seaside Library. The New Testament. Volume XLIX. No. 1000. Revised Version of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated Out of the Greek, Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611, Com[pared with the Most Ancient Authorities and the Authorized English Version of the New Testament, with Introduction, and Various Readings from the Three Most Celebrated Manuscripts of the Original Greek Text. By Constantine Tischendorf. In Parallel Columns on Same Pages. Part II. Containing the Acts of the Apostles to Revelation. New York. George Munro. 1881. 122pp.

8 x 12.25 inches in half leather. Some rubbing as shown, generally solid, and interior very good, crisp, and clean.