[Geneva Bible]

[1606 QUARTO GENEVA BIBLE] The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translation in divers Languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places

Robert Barker, 1606. Leather. Complete quarto Geneva Bible in contemporary blind-tooled calf binding with brass metalwork furniture. General title page and NT title page intact. Including the Apocrypha, Book of Common Prayer, and Sternhold & Hopkins' Metrical Psalms. Scriptural text complete but lacking the front endpaper first two leaves of the BCP and final metrical psalms following 119. With an early rebacking along with the metalwork. Clasps and tail 1' of the rear strip of brass perished; moderate weart to the extremities with some abrasion of the leather at the extremities revealing the oaken boards with antique patina. both boards show splitting from the application of the furniture and oxidation to the boards and adjacent leaves around the rivets; occasional tidemarks and some thumbsoil to the margins, otherwise VERY GOOD. With numerous ownership inscriptions to the endpapers, title versos and elsewhere. An uncommon survival in contemporary binding. [Darlow & Moule 285, one of some 30 odd Barker printings of the 1580 edition with trivial modifications] William Whittingham was one of many Puritan scholars who landed in Calvin's Geneva as exiles from eligious persecution under Queen Mary. Trained in classical languages at Oxford, Whittingham completed a fresh translation of the New Testament from the original Greek in 1557. Joined by Anthony Gilby and Thomas Sampson, a translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew and Aramaic was completed in 1560. The three saw their work as a continuance of the tradition of English Bible translation first begun by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. Given permission to print in England by Queen Elizabeth, the Geneva Bible became the dominant translation in England for three generations before and after the King James Version. 4to in 8's. Dual column 72-line blackletter text with roman intros and marginal glosses. A7-E8, [2], A1-Z8, Aa1-Zz8, Aaa1-Iii2, [4], Kkk1-Zzz10, A1-L2, A1-F3. (BCP & Psalms); [2 General Title & Prelims: Prayer Book, Psalter, General Title, 'Of the incomparable treasures of the holy Scriptures', 'How to take profit ...'. Text: OT leaves 1-358; Apocrypha 359-435, NT title, 'Summe of the hwole scripture [6], NT Text 441-554; Concordances unpaginated, Whole Booke of Psalmes [10], 1-76 (perished thereafter). VERY GOOD. Item #508223

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