BIBLE, English [Geneva, 'Breeches']. The Bible: translated a...

BIBLE, English [Geneva, 'Breeches']. The Bible: translated according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages ... Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1615, general and New Testament titles within woodcut borders, Concordances title with woodcut head-piece and ornament, Apocrypha present, woodcut head- and tail-pieces & initials, primarily double-column blackletter with marginal glosses, C17th-18th ink annotations and family records on some blank versos and margins (lower margin end of Prophets, verso final Apocrypha leaf, verso NT title, fore margin and verso Concordances title), text-block closely trimmed along top edge (in parts through running titles), small hole to final Apocrypha leaf, some incisions/cuts to fore-edge margins of several leaves incl. F4-[F8] in The Second Table, a single c.12cm tear running parallel to fore-edge of leaf [I7] in The Second Table without significant loss, contemporary gilt-tooled sheep (scuffed & worn, joints cracked but holding), Victorian spine label and wove endpapers with 1895 ink ownership inscription, 4to. [A good example in contemporary binding. Sold with all faults. ESTC S5052]

Estimate:£500

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