The Treacle Bible (1568)—From its rendering of Jeremiah viii:22: "Is there no treacle [instead of balm] in Gilead?"
The Rosin Bible (1609)—From the same text, but translated "rosin."
The Thumb Bible (1670)—Being one inch square and half an inch thick; was published at Aberdeen.
The Vinegar Bible (1717)—So named from the head-line of the twentieth chapter of Luke, which reads: "The Parable of the Vinegar," instead of the "vineyard."
The Printers' Bible—We are told by Cotton Mather that in a Bible printed prior to 1702 a blundering typographer made King David exclaim: "Printers [instead of princes] persecuted him without a cause." See Psalms cxix:161.
The Murderers' Bible (1801)—So called from an error in the sixteenth verse of the Epistle of Jude, the word "murderers" being used instead of "murmurers."
The Caxton Memorial Bible (1877)—Wholly printed and bound in twelve hours, but only one hundred copies struck off.
However much truth there may be in the stories of the dissolute conduct of Shakespeare, there is abundant proof of the fact that the Bible was one of his favorite books. Indeed, his admiration for the Scriptures carried him so far that he frequently incorporated Bible sentences in his plays. The following are examples:
Bible—"But though I be rude in speech."—2 Corinthians xi:6.
Othello—"Rude am I in speech."