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"NOBLEST GENEVA BIBLE" The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. General title and New Testament titles within woodcut ornamental border, the former printed in red and black; Psalter and Apocrypha titles within woodcut historiated border. Full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden; woodcut text illustrations. [21] (of [22]), 437, [2], 438-532; 137, [6] (of [10]) leaves; lacks initial blank and last 4 leaves (end of second index followed by A perfite Supputation). Mostly printed in black letter. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 399x260 mm, 19th-century calf stamped in black to panel design with arabesque center- and cornerpieces on covers, neatly rebacked; margins trimmed touching some sidenotes, occasional minor soiling, insignificant worming in blank lower margins and at end, general title trimmed to rule border and mounted, 3 leaves of second index dampstained with repairs on last leaf slightly affecting text. Manuscript register of the Poole and King families on front flyleaf and at end of the Apocrypha. London: Christopher Barker, 1583
Described by Rumball-Petre as the "noblest Geneva Bible," this folio was the last black letter edition of the Geneva version. Herbert 178; Rumball-Petre 86; STC 2136.
