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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages, 4to (210 x 155mm.), 1585
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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages, mostly black letter, general and NT titles within wide woodcut border, Calendar printed in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments, general title cut to size and laid down with a few small stains, pp. 329-344 misbound, some side-notes shaved [ESTC S3394; Herbert 187], Christopher Barker, 1585; The Whole of Book of Psalmes Collected into English Meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others, black letter, large woodcut device on title, long tear to title, lacks final leaf, small rust-holes touching some letters to final few leaves, some cropping [ESTC S90640], Assignes of Richard Day, 1585, 2 works bound in 1 vol., later panelled calf, upper cover detached, worn, 4to (210 x 155mm.), 1585
Footnotes
The Geneva version, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and others. Including the Apocrypha, Book of Common Prayer, and the Concordances, it is of a type commonly known as the "Breeches Bible", first appearing in 1579, the name deriving from the translation in Genesis 3:7, "...they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches".
Provenance: Robert Burt, early ownership inscription on preliminary leaf of New Testament.