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FIRST BISHOPS' BIBLE The.holie.Bible. conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe. New Testament title within woodcut ornamental border; text woodcuts chiefly after the illustrations by Virgil Solis for the 1560 Frankfurt Luther Bible. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 378x258 mm, remboîtage of 17th-century panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, scattered marginal repairs not affecting text, preliminaries partly bound out of order, with one leaf (The order of the bookes) dampstained, small piece torn from blank outer margin of part 3 title, contents otherwise relatively clean, lacks the first three leaves, with general title supplied in facsimile facing the first page of Genesis. (London: R. Jugge), [1568]
first edition of the bishops' bible. "This revision by bishops and scholars under the direction of Archbishop Parker replaced the Great Bible as the version authorized for church use . . . The most lavishly illustrated of the folio Bibles, it contains 127 narrative cuts, most copied from a series by the German illustrator Virgil Solis"--Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 2099. Herbert 125; STC 2099.
