FIRST GENEVA BIBLE The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke. 4 double-page woodcut maps (those of Canaan and the Holy Land supplied from another copy, the former with marginal restoration) and one double-page plate; woodcut text illustrations. [4], 474; 122, [14] leaves, with title, next three preliminaries, and last leaf (The order of the yeres from Pauls conversion) in facsimile on laid paper. Folio, 247x165 mm, modern calf with minor surface wear; first 3 leaves of Genesis heavily soiled and remargined slightly affecting sidenotes, some marginal soiling and dampstaining elsewhere, marginal restoration on last 4 index leaves with occasional slight text loss, 4P2-4, 5B4, and ²C3-4 supplied from another copy. Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560
first edition of the geneva bible. "The Geneva translation became the household Bible of Elizabethan England and retained its popularity well into the next century, when its influenced gradually gave way to the Authorized Version of 1611. The community of Marian exiles in Geneva who translated and printed this first edition followed the distinctive features of contemporary French Genevan Bibles--convenient size, roman type, numbered verse divisions, and the inclusion of historical tables, explanatory pictures, plans, and maps . . . These visual aids reflect Genevan concern that even the 'simple reader' should understand obscure passages of scripture"--Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 2093. Herbert 107; Printing and the Mind of Man 83; STC 2093.
