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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 illustrated Genealogies by John Speed. General title page (1611) 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. Bound without the Apocrypha, likely removed by a zealous Puritan. New Testament title page (1610). Concludes with the Two Concordances and dated colophon (1611). Bound with The Booke of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins with printed title page. Woodcut first chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
[par]^3, A-Z^8, Aa-Xx^8, Yy^6, *^4, Kkk-Yyy^8, Zzz^10. Lacks Apocrypha, else complete with all title pages.
Binding
Rebound in black calf. Boards with double gilt-paneled border with corner fleurons around a gilt centerpiece. Blind-tooled accents to the inner panel. Spine with four raised bands and gilt-lines and blind-tooling to compartments, and a red gilt-lined morocco label. The words “Holy Bible” and a date of “1611” in gilt. Endpapers renewed.
Condition
Cropped, reducing headlines; Genealogies lacks title page and first four leaves; T8 lower corner slight loss to sidenotes; Kk1 loss to fore-edge repaired, reducing sidenotes only; Lll2-3 burn hole to outer column reducing a few words of text; K7 repaired closed tear. A clean, crisp copy of the Breeches Bible.
References
Herbert 307; STC 2214.