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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
[The Bible], Christopher Barker, 1578

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION

[The Bible], black letter, double column, New Testament title within wide woodcut border, Table and Almanac printed in red and black, lacks OT title, 6 preliminary leaves and 7 (of 10) leaves of summary matter at end, opening leaf and NT title loose (possibly inserted), last 3 leaves frayed at edges with minor losses, seventeenth century calf, worn, upper cover detached [STC 2123; Herbert 154], small folio (351 x 235mm.), Christopher Barker, 1578

Footnotes

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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