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The Bible, That is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers Languages. With most profitable annotations…
Summary
An illustrated black letter folio Geneva Bible with the Adam and Eve engraving, five title pages, illustrations, maps, and the famous marginal notes. A well-preserved Breeches Bible housed in its contemporary blind-paneled boards.
Description
Begins with the Book of Common Prayer with an architectural title page (1611). General title page (1610) with a woodcut architectural border featuring a lion and a unicorn. Full page woodcut engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden before Genesis. Text in two column black letter type. Complete set of woodcut illustrations and maps. Woodcut architectural title featuring Lady Justice and Mercy before Psalms. Includes Apocrypha as issued. New Testament title page (1610) with similar woodcut architectural border. Concludes with the Two Tables ending on dated colophon (1610). Bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins with a distinct and elaborate woodcut title page (1605). Text in single column black letter, and missing the final leaf of Prayers as common. Woodcut first chapter initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
A^4, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Zzz^6; Aaaa-Zzzz^6; 5A-5M^6, Nnnnn^4. Complete with all titles.
Binding
Brown rebacked calf. Covers with double blind panels and corner fleurons. Spine with four raised bands, blind rolls and lines to compartments, and two red gilt-lined morocco labels. Plain endpapers. All edges faded gilt.
Condition
BCP title page cropped to head reducing upper border; Small hole to general title page; first three leaves of Genesis with short repaired marginal tear; Pp6, Qq3 lower corner torn away costing a few letters of text; trimmed, reducing headlines primarily in the Pentateuch; occasional soiling and spotting, but a clean and bright example of black letter folio Geneva Bible.
Provenance
Inscription to tailpiece of Apocrypha reads “George Green born the 29th of May 1633.” Another note in a neat italic hand at the introduction to the Psalter reads “George Greene the sonne of Thomas Greene borne May 29 in the year of our Lord God ano Donmani 1633.”
References
Herbert 301.