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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION [The Bible], Christopher Barker, 1578
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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
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THE FIRST LARGE FOLIO EDITION OF THE GENEVA VERSION, with the Prayer Book which "Fry states... is generally missing from copies of this edition" (Herbert).
Provenance: Abraham Rudd, of Stockwith [?Nottingham], seventeenth century ownership inscription with 5 stanza verse of provenance (on blank verso of b3 and N6) "Abraham Rudd owneth mee/as every one hearby may see... In Stockwith I dwell ye trust it is so/The which this book trowly doth owe/Of William Turner I did buye/This book the first of May: And twenty shilling for this same/I did him trowlye pay/A thousand six hundred and twentie/He did it not me give"; Thomas Bushbe, ownership inscription dated 30 November 1724, stating his age as eighty-five, and bequeathing (also in rhyme) the book to his grandson Hugh Bushbe.





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