1581 Geneva BIBLE Old & New Testament Apocrypha Grashop Puritans & Pilgrims
An exceedingly rare 16th-century Geneva Bible compete with Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Grashop's Bible Chart, and The Address to the Christian Reader. The Geneva version was translated into English by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, and Thomas Sampson. This 1581 printing is exceedingly rare and is printed in double-column, black letter type with verse numbers (The Geneva Bible was the first English Bible to use verse numbers). Each page is filled with references and notes in the margins.
Even after the 1611 King James English Bible was published, the Geneva Bible would still be popular edition of the Puritans into the mid-17th-century.
The Church of England did not recognize the Geneva Bible as canon and thus had no official status in the English Church; however, all readers of the Geneva Bible were given aid in understanding scripture through the help of T. Grashop's Bible Chart which advises the reader on how to approach the biblical text. This edition includes The "Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances ... collected by R.F. H[errey]" which each have a separate title page, pagination, and signatures.
Item number: #7273
Price: $1950
Geneva Bible
The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages: with most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader: and also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of anything in the same conteyned.
Imprinted at London: By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1581.
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Collation: SCRIPTURAL TEXT COMPLETE
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[56], 554 [i.e. 552], [92] leaves
o New Testament has special title page with date that was separate from Old Testament and Apocrypha
o Lacking Old Testament title page and no other prelims; according to D&M 128:
o "the first sheet has only two leaves, the leaf before the title and that containing the Epistle being omitted in this edition"
o Signatures: pi² [par.]⁸ [superscript pi]A-E⁸ F⁶, A-3H⁸ 3I² *⁴ 3K-3Y⁸ 3Z¹⁰, ²A-L⁸ M⁴
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References: Darlow & Moule 128; STC 1865:1; USTC 509206
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Provenance: Handwritten
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Thomas Barlo
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Edward Neighbour June 17, 1780
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Elir Lea
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~8.5in X 6.75in (21.5cm x 17cm)
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Exceedingly rare 16th-century Bible – none found for sale elsewhere!
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