Beschreibung:

Bible [English]. The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages..., Imprinted at London [i.e. Amsterdam]: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599 [i.e. circa 1599-1640], general title present with woodcut border (imprint dated 1599), letterpress general title with woodcut illustration, New Testament title within decorative woodcut border, few woodcut illustrations and decorative initials, double-column roman type, bound with Apocrypha lacking one leaf of 1 Esdras, blank after Old Testament, colophon at end of Tables dated 1599, occasional marginal fraying & tears (mostly to few leaves in Apocrypha), bound with an incomplete Common Prayer at front and Genealogies by John Speed with double-page woodcut map (marked and dust-soiled), also bound with a Book of Psalms at rear, general toning and some marginal browning, dust and finger-soiling, occasional damp-stains, few marks and spots etc. throughout volume, early/mid 19th century dark green straight grain morocco, blind panelled decoration to boards and spine, upper board detached, extremities worn, 4to (Qty: 1) Herbert 251; Darlow & Moule 190; STC 2176. Geneva version; with Thomson's NT, but with Junius' Revelation. With Esther i:1 '...seven and / twenty provinces'. Headline Ee3b corrected to 'Proverbes'. Many of the previous errors are corrected. This example also omitting line in Eccles. iv.9 as the previous 3 issues of the same version, Two are better [than one: for they have better] wages for their labour. These Bibles were printed probably in Amsterdam and Dort and adopted by Barker, for the use of English Puritans in the Low Countries. There are many editions bearing this date, which while agreeing closely are yet distinct. No doubt a certain number of copies were originally issued in a mixed state. The nominal date, 1599, is probably untrue in almost every case.