Lot 1356 , Bible - A Sixteenth Century Elizabethan Geneva version, printed in black letter. [The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke ...With most profitable Annotations ...] i.e. lacks general title, otherwise compl

° Bible - A Sixteenth Century Elizabethan Geneva version, printed in black letter. [The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke ...With most profitable Annotations ...] i.e. lacks general title, otherwise complete with all prelims., Psalter title (within decorated border), Apocrypha title (likewise), NT. title (Sacred Name etc. border), the 2 tables, Perfite Supputation/ colophon; illustrations - Garden of Eden (f-page in prelims.), engraved illus. (mostly earlier OT.), large Jerusalem/Temple illus. (fol.402), Holy Land map (NT. title verso), Apostles map (NT. fol.78) head and tailpiece decorations, decorated initial letters; signatures - A-C6, D4, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6, Aaaa-Vvvv6, A-Z6, *6, **4; foliation - (21, ex22), 532, 137,(10); old calf (distressed), gilt cipher on covers, folio. [Imprinted at London, by Christopher Barker ...1583 ...]. *Herbert 178
£1,200-1,500

Condition:
Boards worn, spine lacking, joints cracked, clasp traces, blanks at front torn/loose as are first 2 printed folios, 2nd table leaves loose, fore-edge margin Epistle (prelims.) damaged and sellotape repairs (most notes legible), fol. 385v (Ezekiel) clean tear with sellotape over parts of 6 lines (print legible), NT. fol. 55 sellotape over pts. of 3 and 4 lines (legible), with some in margins, fols. 57 sellotape over part of 4 and 5 lines and notes (legible), 58r sellotape over marginal notes (legible), 60r over some marginal notes (few words loss) and end 4 text loss); boards (?insect) pitted in parts; foliation goes awry at times- but corrects itself (wrongly numbered sometimes have ink correction) and one or two not included in numbering (eg. Apocrypha title); Kalendar and some other prelims. printing in red and black; cipher initials (?) B.K.M. Additional photos added