Bible, English

The Bible: that Is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testaments, 3 parts in one, includes Apocrypha, bound with a 1616 Robert Barker Book of Common Prayer at front, black letter, double column, general title within woodcut elaborate border incorporating Royal Arms, full-page woodcut frontispiece of the Garden of Eden on A4 verso, several decorated initials, small maps, one larger illustration depicting ‘The Vision’, Book of Common Prayer lacking A1-3, with A4 torn and trimmed along the right margin; a few corners or margin repaired throughout with occasional loss of side notes, some tearing, widely mispaginated, light browning and dusting, occasional spotting, light marginal staining, NT small worm trail from Ll3 till end of vol., lacking last 2 ff. (Ffff3-4), modern bookplate, 19^th century vellum boards, spine elaborately gilt tooled with Tudor’s arms, marbled endpapers, a.e.r., slightly soiled, upper board bowed, [STC (2nd ed.), 16347 part 1; ESTC S1792; STC (2nd ed.), 2244, Herbert 348 part 2], folio, Robert Barker, 1616.

*** The Geneva-Tomson-Junius version 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 and his translation of Franciscus Junius’ translation of Revelation.