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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
[The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament], [Edinburgh, T. Bassandyne and A. Arbuthnot, 1579]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION

[The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament], 3 woodcut plates (2 folding, strengthened on verso), woodcut arms on New Testament title (dated 1576), lacks 19 leaves (all before a1, folios 2-5 of Genesis, final 5 leaves), loss to blank fore-corner of NT title, 6 leaves with some loss of body text, final 8 leaves repaired at margins with some loss, a few NT side-notes shaved, modern half calf [STC 2125; Herbert 158], folio (315 x 205mm.), [Edinburgh, T. Bassandyne and A. Arbuthnot, 1579]

Footnotes

THE FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN SCOTLAND. The printing was begun by Bassandyne, whose name appears on the NT title dated 1576; and was finished by his coadjutor Arbuthnot in 1579. "By order of the General Assembly every parish in Scotland subscribed the purchase price, £4 13s. 4d. before the work was undertaken. An Act of the Scots Parliament passed in 1579 ordered every householder worth 300 merks of yearly rent, and every yeoman or burgess worth £500 stock, to have a Bible and Psalm Book, in the vulgar language, in his house, under the penalty of ten pounds" (Herbert).

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