Lot 1085 , BIBLE - Geneva Version; printed ostensibly by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 - 'The nominal date, 1599, is probably untrue in almost every case; they were apparently published at different times in Amsterdam an

BIBLE - Geneva Version; printed ostensibly by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 - 'The nominal date, 1599, is probably untrue in almost every case; they were apparently published at different times in Amsterdam and Dort (for English Puritans in the Low Countries) and adopted by Barker' - Herbert 248. The Bible, That Is, the holy Scriptures, conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferrred with the best translations in divers languages. With the most profitable Annotations ... (2nd) general title (with pictorial vignette illus.), varies OT. engraved text illus. (including the Vision of Ezekiel), head and tailpiece decorations, decorated initial letters; lacks NT. title and prelim. leaf following (with map); old blind decorated panelled calf (defective), 4to. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher ... 1599
£160-200

Condition:
Binding worn and broken into 3 parts, with few leaves loose, title frayed (sl. loss) at edges and soiled, usual spots and other marks intermittently (non obliterating), some headlines cut close/shaved; lacks 1st general title and NT. title and prelim. leaf (with map). The 2 tables follow main text at end (with Barker's colophon) and then (as often) the Metrical Psalms. Not called for by Herbert are the pictorially engraved Genealogies (36pp., with the d-page Holy Land map and Jerusalem inset plan). The Apocrypha (a different Roman letter) is also not always present. Signatures - O.T. q2-4, A-D4, E2, A-Z8 and 6, Aa-Pp8, Qq7, Apocrypha (4 unsigned), Hjj-SSS8, TH6; NT. Aaa3-8, Bbb-Qqql; Tables Qqq2-8, Rrr4;Psalms A-F8, G4 (Prayers incomplete at end); Pagination - Prelims. (3)ff.; OT. 190 and 127ff.; Apocrypha (94) ff.; NT. 121ff.; Tables (11) ff.; Psalms (10), 90 and (4) pp. Reference - Herbert (248) and 253 (ie.248, variant F) with Psalm 73, v.27 'they that' in corrected form. James Weston, 18 cent. ownership on title verso