The Bible,: That is, The holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated According to the Ebrew [sic] and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all hard places, and other thing

London [Amsterdam]: Imprinted by the Deputies of Christopher Barker,, 1599. A handsome Puritan bible A Bible probably printed for the use of English puritans in the Low Countries in the early 17th century. The metrical psalms are included, with a separate title and register. The Geneva version, translated by William Whittingham and other Marian exiles, went through more than 70 editions between 1560 and 1640. Although folio versions were produced for pulpit use, this was primarily a household Bible, typically printed as here in small, manageable quartos. Geneva Bibles with 1599 imprints have a complex bibliographical history. Herbert identifies at least eight distinct editions, and notes that "the nominal date, 1599, is probably untrue in almost every case; they were apparently published at different times in Amsterdam and Dort and adopted by Barker" (p. 115). The present text (Herbert's edition B), was printed from the earliest of these editions "at a somewhat later date" (p. 116). Geneva Bibles with 1599 imprints reprint the previous Geneva quartos in Roman type, albeit with Franciscus Junius's vehemently antipapal translation of Revelations - a change replicated in most Roman-type editions from 1602 onwards. Many such Bibles were smuggled into England during the upsurge of Laudianism in 1633 (Betteridge, p. 44). Quarto in eights (217 x 169 mm). Late 17th-century or early 18th-century English panelled calf with alternating light and dark panels, neatly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands tooled in blind and red morocco label, covers with fillets and tooled borders in blind, floral corner tools, edges red. Engraved title page, letterpress title page with woodcut vignette, divisional titles, woodcut initials, tailpieces, and illustrations in the text. Contemporary ink inscription of "Cha. Pax His Book" to title page. Covers and extremities professionally restored. Light rubbing and marks to calf, minor browning, foxing, and damp-staining to endpapers and contents, engraved title page soiled and creased, upper outer quarter of OO8 torn away with resulting loss of text, upper outer corner of Fff8 chipped, affecting only the headline and foliation. A very good copy. Darlow & Moule 189; Herbert 249. Maurice Betteridge, "The Bitter Notes: The Geneva Bible and Its Annotations", The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1983.