1610 BIBLE in ENGLISH by ROBERT BARKER antique GENEVA VERSION

Bible [English].

[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 upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance,

Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1610]


general title lacking,

New Testament title present printed within decorative woodcut border with ownership name John Tench to verso,

Apocrypha present,

double-column black letter text throughout,
few woodcut illustrations,

early ownership signatures of Margaret Large and John Large to final leaf of Prophets,

lacking final preliminary leaf (A4) and Old Testament leaves F6, 3L1, 3O2 also lacking,

leaves G1, G2, G4 and 2C6 with illustrations excised and consequent text loss,

leaves 3I2 and 4M2 (leaf following New Testament title 'The Printer to the diligent Reader') excised with loss of lower half of each leaf,

few leaves with short worm trail to lower margins,

bound with at front an incomplete and defective Book of Common Prayer, London: Robert Barker, 1607

 and bound with at rear an incomplete and defective Book of Psalms, London: printed by John Windet, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1603

 some dust-soiling, toning and few marks throughout volume,

few closed tears and repairs, some leaves with fraying and wear to margins,
later endpapers

Original blind panelled and embossed calf over wooden boards, with brass central bosses, corner pieces and clasp fixings to boards (without clasps),

old reback, upper board detached and lower joint split, worn

Darlow and Moule 232; Herbert 301; STC 2208.

The Geneva version of the Old Testament, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others; with Laurence Tomson’s revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament.

Small thick folio.
Size 8 by 12 1/4"

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