Episcopal Church Hasn't Touched Bible for 100 Years

Gordon Campbell had listed a 1717 Oxford KJV edition as being "Thomas Baskett's Vinegar Bible" (Bible, Story of the KJV, p. 319).

At books.google.com, I once came across a KJV edition printed in 1717. It was printed in London by John Baskett. It only included the text of the Old Testament, evidently scanned backwards. It is perhaps a smaller size edition than a folio. Its text did not include the New Testament so I could not check for the Luke 20 heading.
I found it again by searching at that books.google web site for "Holy Bible containing the Old Testament, Vinegar Bible," and it was on the first page of books that came up as a result of the search.

When I had searched for "Holy Bible containing the Old Testament, 1717," I saw several listings for a KJV printed in 1717, but their text was not available to open and examine.

 

Christopher De Hamel noted that “in 1711-12, John Baskett negotiated deals with both Oxford and Cambridge and he brought a partnership with Edinburgh in order to operate their various printing privileges himself” (The Book. A History of the Bible, p. 249). Around the same time period (1709-1712), John Baskett had also bought out the royal patent from the heirs of Robert Barker (p. 248).

David Norton maintained that from 1713 on, John Baskett “leased the Oxford right to print Bibles” (p. 101). The Cambridge History of the Bible described John Baskett as “the greatest monopolist of the century” and noted that “the whole British Bible trade was virtually in Baskett’s hands” (p. 463). These exclusive printing rights would pass to his son Thomas Baskett and later to his grandson Mark.

 

MUST be a Hoax then!

 

Vinegar in a Baskett? And I thought it would take a bottle to hold it!