The Carey Bible was an edition of the English-language Douay–Rheims translation of the

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Mathew Carey Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the father of economist Henry Charles Carey. Early life and education Care ...

(1760-1839) beginning in 1789. It was the first

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version and only the second English-language translation of the Bible printed in the United States.Carter, Michael S. "Under the Benign Sun of Toleration: Mathew Carey, the Douai Bible, and Catholic Print Culture, 1789–1791," Journal of the Early Republic, Fall 2007 Carey was an expatriate Irish journalist who established himself as a printer and publisher in Philadelphia around 1784. In 1789 he announced plans to print the first American Catholic Bible and solicited subscriptions. Carey also appealed to potential Protestant subscribers who he invited to subscribe for copies of the Bible in order to show their lack of anti-Catholic prejudice. Among Carey's enthusiastic supporters was

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, the nation's first Roman Catholic bishop (consecrated in 1789), who promoted Carey's project and himself ordered twenty copies. The price of a subscription was six dollars. The bible was completed December 1, 1790 and was soon also available in a single volume. Probably fewer than 500 copies of the Carey Bible were printed.''The Bible in English: its history and influence'', by David Daniell, 2003
"Mathew Carey and the American Bible Flood" Carey published two more versions of the Douay–Rheims Bible in 1805; one of these editions was reprinted in 1811 and 1816. He also published many editions of the King James Version, each carefully planned, formatted and innovatively marketed.

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