Lot 308 , [Sixteenth Century Geneva Bible with Tomson's New Testament] The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament... With most profitable Annotations... title with engraved headpiece and 'open

° [Sixteenth Century Geneva Bible with Tomson's New Testament] The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament... With most profitable Annotations... title with engraved headpiece and 'open book' printer's device, 4 engraved maps, text engravings, tailpieces and decorated initials; lacks NT. title; old calf with panelled spine, 8vo. by the Deputies of Christopher Barker.....1595. The text followed by -A Briefe Table....(by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595); Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances....collected by R.F.H. (by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, nd.); and also-The Whole Booke of Psalmes....(printed by John Winder for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1594)
£400-600

Condition:
Badly worn on spine, inner hinges cracked, clasps mostly missing, no e/ps.; text preceded by a defective black letter BCP. (incl. no title or colophon). Bible collation - (4), 190, 197ff. (incl. Apocrypha) and 116ff. (NT., lacking title). The General title is (A2) being preceded by a blank-signed A1.the OT. is complete with a 2nd part title (with a blank-signed A1, preceding); NT commences 'The Printer to the Diligent Reader' (with map on verso). Brief Table-11ff., with tailpiece above colophon and blank leaf; Concordances-80ff., with title decoration and tailpiece above colophon; Psalmes -(8), 97 and (98-102) pp., followed by 2 defective leaves of 'Praiers'. Bible-10cm closed tear fol.9 inner margin (sl.loss), 3cm. closed tear fol. 26 (v.sl.loss); 2nd sequence fol. 121 with 2 clean 6cm tears (v.sl.loss), fol. no. 128 not used; NT. ff. 4 and 5 some fore-edge loss (notes), also headlines and first line of text; fol. 6 clean tear no loss; ff.12 (loss mostly to notes), 39 (mostly to notes), 75-99 lower gutter and margin stains; Sternhold and Hopkins Psalmes with sl. tears and stains at end; some intermittent stains elsewhere. Herbert 226 (see collation at 194)

Sold for £500