Congressional printer.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 16 engraved plates only, title and all to 3R2 the work of Joseph Gales printer, the rest completed in the 19th century, title creased, ?lacks plate before sig. A1, M1 hole with loss, 2N1 tear with loss, 6S1 & 2 loose, browned throughout, 19th century ink family notes on front free endpaper and fly-leaf, 19th century reversed calf, rubbed and stained, spine torn at tail with large loss, [not in Herbert or ESTC], folio, Sheffield, Joseph Gales, 1785; sold not subject to return.

⁂ Joseph Gales (1761-1841), newspaper proprietor and radical. "Gales's profile [radical profile] brought him to the attention of Pitt's government, especially during the period of state trials in 1794. At the start of that year he was accused of writing an anonymous letter to Thomas Hardy, secretary of the London Corresponding Society, which discussed the possibility of distributing arms (pikes) to supporters of political reform. Facing arrest, Gales left Sheffield for Derby and thereafter left the country. Winifred Gales was left behind to arrange the sale of the Sheffield Register to his former assistant, James Montgomery, before joining her husband in exile. After arriving in Philadelphia in 1795, he worked first as a printer, reporter, and bookkeeper before starting his own paper, the Independent Gazetteer." - Oxford DNB.