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The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greek [including The Book of Common Prayer]. Woodcut illustrations and maps in text. Mostly printed in black letter. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 331x230 mm, modern calf with morocco lettering piece, old panelled sheep covers laid down; margins trimmed entering some headlines and sidenotes, some marginal soiling and dampstaining, paper corrosion along fore edges at beginning and end occasionally affecting text, T1 and Y1-4 frayed in outer margin, clean tear in 3C6, pieces torn from 3K6-3L1, ²2P1, and ²2Q1 with varying text loss, lacks general and new testament titles (replaced in facsimile), b1, E1, 3D2, 3I5, and last 13 leaves. London: Christopher Barker, 1578
first large folio edition of the geneva bible. "In this edition the Geneva and the Prayer Book [i. e., Great Bible] versions of the Psalter appear side by side . . . The Prayer Book included in the preliminary matter exhibits many peculiarities; the word Minister is substituted throughout for Priest, and some of the Offices are omitted"--Herbert 154.
