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The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations…
Description
Begins with the Book of Common Prayer. The general title page (1594) with headpiece and the small woodcut of crossing of the Red Sea. Text in two column Roman font. Divisional title to the Second Part with head- and tailpiece. With Apocrypha as issued. New Testament title page (1593) with head- and tailpiece. With Two Right Profitable and Fruitful Concordances by R[obert] F. H[errey] with printed title page and colophon (n.d.). Bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins. First chapter woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
[par]^4, A-Z^8, &6 [Gen-Job], Aa-Zz^8, &&^8, **^4 [Psalms-2 Maccabees], Aaa-Ooo^8, Ppp^4 [New Testament]. Complete with both title pages.
Binding
Contemporary black calf, probably late seventeenth century. Paneled boards with corner fleurons. Rubbed and scuffed, especially to rear board. Corners bumped. Joints starting but holding firm. Chipped to top and bottom of spine. Marbled paper pastedowns.
Condition
BCP lacks prelims and calendar; Sporadic staining and browning with occasional marginal annotations; New Testament title page with closed tear and lower corner loss; Aaa2 lower corner loss just touching map; first few leaves of NT with frayed edges; Psalter lacking the final leaf of Prayers.
Provenance
20th century Genealogies records to verso of general title and adjacent to start of Apocrypha. Prayer in contemporary hand adjacent to Genesis 1 reads “ye that read this Sacred Book beware that your heart is beset on God, & let not no wandering thoughts interpose to quench the spirit, that spirit of God which should be upon all who take it in hand.” More notes and prayers on recto and verso to divisional title and title to Tables.
Note
There are only five editions of the illustrated quarto Geneva Bible from the sixteenth century, and these are in high demand. This is a very nice example, a rare survivor, possibly retaining its original binding.
References
Herbert 218; STC 2160.