BIBLES etc 1573 The holie Byble [including The Booke of Co

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The holie Byble [including The Booke of Common Prayer]. Divisional titles within woodcut historiated strapwork border incorporating English royal arms; woodcut text illustrations. Mostly printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. 4to, 220x157 mm, old blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass cornerpieces, catches, and one clasp (of 2), spine heavily worn, covers detached with last leaf of metrical Psalms and rear free endpaper adhered to rear cover; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling, dark stain on several leaves in middle of volume, scattered early marginalia, few minor marginal repairs, front free endpaper and first leaf of Booke of Common Prayer torn, lacks general title and next 15 preliminaries before the Booke of Common Prayer. (London: Richard Jugge, 1573)

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Second Bishops' Bible in quarto format, and the first to include the Prayer Book version of the Psalter in place of the translation in the 1568 folio edition. Herbert 135; STC 2108. Bound with 1573 John Daye edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical Psalms with letterpress music (STC 2443), lacking the last 16 leaves.