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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. General and NT titles within woodcut historiated border. [2], 434; [4], 441-554 leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 214x164 mm, later panelled calf, crudely rebacked retaining heavily worn original backstrip, endpapers renewed, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end also affecting the other works bound in (see below), cropped contemporary marginalia through most of volume, lower portion torn off 3Z1 affecting 1 John 4-5 and 2 John 1-2. London: Robert Barker, 1600
Earliest edition of the Geneva version printed by Robert Barker. Herbert 257. Bound in front is a 1601 Barker Book of Common Prayer. Title in red and black within elaborate woodcut border. [42] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. Outer margin of title reinforced on verso. Griffiths 1601/2. At the end are an undated Barker edition of Herrey's Concordance, [82] leaves, mostly printed in black letter; and a 1600 Windet/Daye edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms, printed in double-column black letter with letterpress music in the text. [10], 91, [11] pages. STC 13228b.16, 2500.
