Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by his Maiesties Speciall Comandement,

(Bible. English. Authorised.) The Holy Bible,

Published by Robert Barker New Testament dated 1614, 1613

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title to genealogies with 'To the Christian Reader' followed by 34-pages of woodcut genealogies, the first with a woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve, highly elaborate woodcut titles to the Old and New Testaments, black letter, printed in double column, woodcut initials and ornaments; final leaf of genealogies repaired with slight loss, both titles and final leaf laid down (probably in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century), upper fore-corner of [Nnn8] torn with slight loss of letters in running title, some cropping or shaving to signatures and catchwords, some marginal repairs occasionally affecting letters, occasional light staining and spotting, a few darker spots and abrasions, small 4to in 8s (206 x 162mm), early nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spine with four raised bands and black morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers; quite heavily rubbed, hole in lettering piece, joints split but holding; various layers of provenance: inscription on OT title verso: '[?]Mary Board Hear [sic] Book, 1753, aged 41 years, John Board his hand'; fine calligraphic inscription on the blank verso of the leaf before the Apocrypha [illustrated]: 'Henry Allen his Book Bought ye. 27th of February Anno Domini 1682/3'; illegible old inscription at the foot of the final page of the Apocryphra; some seepage of old inscription from verso to recto of the title page of the New Testament; some old marginal annotation and pen trials; 'John Brown, Bridport, Oct. 1823. A slip laid down on the recto of the final leaf reads: 'This book was found in a very decayed condition at Berrow in Somersetshire & rebound by J. B. at Taunton, October, 1819'; later bibliographical pencil inscriptions to front free endpapers; from the Collection of the late Robert Michael Booth (1945-2024), publisher, writer, collector and broadcaster, fair. Early seventeenth-century bible with annotations and multilayered marks of ownership. As Darlow and Moule state, this 'closely resembles, but is quite distinct from, the quarto of 1613 (No. 250)'. Bound in the early nineteenth-century, in Taunton when it was the property of John Brown, an accountant, banker and well-known chess composer from Bridport, Dorset. Darlow & Moule 256.

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• Title: Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by his Maiesties Speciall Comandement,
• Publisher: Robert Barker New Testament dated 1614
• Publication Date: 1613
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