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The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translation in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations …
Description
Begins with the Book of Common Prayer lacking all before the final leaf of the Calendar. General title page (1602) with woodcut border comprising twenty-four small compartments showing the tents of the twelve tribes as well as the figures of the twelve apostles. Text in two column black letter type. Apocrypha included as issued. Similar New Testament title page (1602). Bound with the Two Concordances with a printed title page (1602) and dated colophon (1602). Concludes with The Whole Booke of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins with title page (1602) and colophon (1602). Floriated first chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
[par]^2,A-Z^8,Aa-Zz^8,Aaa-Hhh^8,Iii^2,*^4,Kkk-Yyy^8,Zzz^10. Complete with both title pages.
Binding
Rebound in black goatskin. Covers with blind paneled border around a central lozenge. Spine with four raised bands and blind tooling to compartments. Endpapers renewed.
Condition
First two remaining leaves of BCP soiled and frayed; minimal marginal worming in the Prophets; occasional minimal spotting; a very clean and bright example of a Geneva Bible.
References
Herbert 269; STC 2186.
