[Bibles - Geneva/Breeches]
The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages
London: Robert Barker, 1608. 3/4 leather. Very Good +. 7 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches. 4to. [2] + 1-432 + [4] + 433 + [1] + 441-544 leaves. Collates as [para] (2 leaves) + A - HHH (8 leaf quires) + * (4 leaf quire) + III (2 leaf quire) + JJJ YYY (8 leaf quires) + ZZZ (10 leaf quire), with * and III in reverse order from that listed in ESTC. ESTCS160. General title as in Herbert 294, Gen i.3 as in Herbert 293. Printed in two column black letter. A small corner loss minimally affecting text on TTT8. NT title page present. Bound with: H[errey], R[obert]. Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances, or large and ample tables alphabeticall. London: Robert Barker, 1608. [164] pages. Collates as A - K (8 leaf quires) + L (2 leaf quire). ESTCS122240. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter.... London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1609. A - E (8 leaf quires). Loss to lower corner of A2 affecting text of 6 lines. Old repair to inner margin of C1, C2, and C3. Not in ESTC. All are close cropped at top. Scattered soiling and staining, mostly light and to margins. A few small closed marginal tears not affecting text. Bound in modern 3/4 brown calf with five raised bands, gilt "The Bible" and date (1608) to spine. A very good copy of the Geneva/Breeches Bible and Psalms. A staple of many American colonists.
[Bookseller: St. Wulfstans Books]
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