Geneva or ‘Breeches Bible’

The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and Newe Testament / translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages ; with most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, A-Z⁶, 2A-2Z⁶, 3A-3Z⁶, 4A-4L⁶ [lacking 4M-4Z⁶, Apocrapha, p397-486], 5A-5M⁶, 5N⁴., printed title pages with ornamental borders, pages numbered on recto only, Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopheer Barker….1592: special title-page to the New Testament ‘. The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza ... Englished by L. Tomson ... Anno Dom. 1591, with engraved map of the ‘Holie Land’ verso p.488, bound with ‘The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English by Thomas Sternhold, A-S5, printed title-page with ornamental border, John Wolfe, for the Assigns of Richard Day, 1586, contemporary blind-stamped calf with metal ornament, lacking clasps, boards detached, previously, rebacked (with that spine now perished), contemporary annotations to upper board and front endpaper (lacking rear end-paper), contemporary annotations scattered throughout, armorial book-plate of Thomas Tyndall, a some minor tears and holes to a few pages, (290 x 200mm.), sm. folio, 1592, 1591 & 1586

***Thomas Tyndall (1723-94) a Bristol merchant and banker with slave trade connections. Succeeded his father as a partner in the Old Bank in Bristol. His uncle William Tyndal was a slave factor in Jamaica.