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The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament.
Summary
An illustrated black letter Breeches Bible with the Genealogies and the double page map of Canaan. A tall folio rebound in period style, and bound with the BCP and Psalter.
Description
Begins with The Book of Common Prayer with title architectural title page (1616). The Genealogies (n.d.) with title page in ornamental border by J[ohn] S[peed], ending with the sought-after double-page map of Canaan. General title page (1616) resembling the 1583 folio edition with the four cherubim and the book inscribed Verbum Dei. The full-page engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden faces the beginning of Genesis. Text in two column black letter with sixty lines to the column. Complete set of Geneva illustrations and maps. Apocrypha included as issued. Printed New Testament title page (1616). Junius’ extensive commentary to the book of Revelation. Ends on dated colophon (1616) after the Two Tables. Bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes by Sternhold and Hopkins with title page (1624). First chapter woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
Collation
A^4, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Lll^6, Mmm-Ooo^8, Ppp-Zzz^6, Aaaa-Zzzz^6, Aaaaa-Eeeee^6, Ffff^4. Complete with all title pages.
Binding
Rebound in brown paneled calf. Covers double paneled in blind with corner fleurons. Spine with five blind-lined raised bands and the words “The Bible” and “1616” in gilt. Renewed marbled endpapers.
Condition
First six leaves of the BCP including title page and final five leaves of Psalter with archival repairs; occasional spotting or soiling; light damp-staining mainly to margins; Qq1 bound out of sequence after Qq2; Pp4-Yy4 small wormtrack to fore-edge margin; small holes impacting one or two letters to about twelve leaves; Qq1, Rr5, Uuuu6 with small hole or tear reducing sidenotes; Pp1 marginal repair reducing sidenotes; the few small defects notwithstanding, a clean and bright text with good margins.
Note
The final edition of the Geneva Bible printed in England, this is a taller folio than many of the earlier editions. Following the publication of the Authorized Version in 1611, King James prohibited the printing of the Geneva Bible in an effort to promote his own translation. Nevertheless, the popular “Bible with notes” remained in strong demand. Dutch printers responded by producing Geneva Bibles in Amsterdam and Dordrecht for importation into England. The Geneva notes themselves proved remarkably enduring, eventually appearing alongside the text of the King James Bible in a number of editions well into the eighteenth century.
References
Herbert 348; ESTC S1792.