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LAST COMPLETE BISHOPS' BIBLE The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Authorised and appointed to be read in Churches. General title within woodcut historiated border showing the Evangelists, the Apostles, and the arms of the 12 Tribes of Israel; Apocrypha and New Testament titles within woodcut ornamental borders. Full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden; woodcut map of the eastern Mediterranean. [18], 496 leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 405x265 mm, later calf over wooden boards preserving contemporary blind-tooled calf covers and brass center- and cornerpieces, rebacked retaining early 19th-century backstrip, endpapers renewed; general title trimmed and mounted, marginal repairs on preliminaries, A1-6 (Genesis 1-19:15) possibly supplied from another copy, some minor worming in blank outer margins, minor restoration on fore edge of several leaves in middle of volume, dampstaining at end, last leaf mounted, lacks Oooo2.3 (Revelation 14:14-21:22). London: Robert Barker, 1602
Last complete edition of the Bishops' Bible, "presumably used by King James' translators as the basis of their new version" (Herbert). Several further editions were printed of the New Testament only. Herbert 271; STC 2188.
