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Text in Roman type in two columns. Titles within woodcut borders, woodcut illustrations, head and tail-pieces. [4], 190; 117 [i.e. 127]; 128-187 [i.e 197] [omitting 129, as issued, and other errors in pagination]; 121, [11] leaves. Complete with the leaf signed Ai preceding the general title. [Bound with, preceding the Bible]: The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid. Title in red and black within woodcut border. [46] leaves [complete]. ESTC S93831. [Bound with, following the Bible:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. [10], 70pp, only. Lacking terminal three signatures. 4to. An excellent example of the Geneva Bible, with Tomson's revised New Testament and Junius' Revelation. The principal Bible of 16th-century Protestantism, and the Geneva Bible was used by Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. This edition contains the famous reading "breeches" in Genesis Chapter III, verse 7, which first appeared in 1579. Although Barker's imprint on title of this edition reads "Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie" the colophon reads "Printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie" as James I had ascended in March 1603. Darlow & Moole 209; ESTC S159; Herbert 274; STC 2190 Early mottled calf, rebacked, brass corner pieces and hinges, lacks clasps, upper cover detached, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: William James (signature and inscription dated 1663 on leaf preceding the general title); Frances Garway (inscription on brass plate on covers dated 1701); Thomas Bever (armorial bookplate, inscriptions on endpaper circa 1748); Francis Hutchinson Synge; Arthur John Snow Paget (inscription dated 1851) General Theological Seminary (bookplate) Text in Roman type in two columns. Titles within woodcut borders, woodcut illustrations, head and tail-pieces. [4], 190; 117 [i.e. 127]; 128-187 [i.e 197] [omitting 129, as issued, and other errors in pagination]; 121, [11] leaves. Complete with the leaf signed Ai preceding the general title. [Bound with, preceding the Bible]: The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid. Title in red and black within woodcut border. [46] leaves [complete]. ESTC S93831. [Bound with, following the Bible:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. [10], 70pp, only. Lacking terminal three signatures. 4to.
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