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(ENGLISH.) The.holie.Bible. Woodcut text illustrations and maps. Black letter. Folio, 385x265 mm, panelled calf, rebacked, some surface wear on

(ENGLISH.) The.holie.Bible. Woodcut text illustrations and maps. Black letter. Folio, 385x265 mm, panelled calf, rebacked, some surface wear on covers; ¹A3 shaved along fore and bottom edges, clean tear in ²E3, corner off ²F6 affecting a few words, hole through illustration on ³I6v, blank corner off Apocrypha title, last 4 leaves of Revelation torn with text loss and crudely repaired, lacks general title and three other preliminaries, the remaining preliminaries partly bound out of order with marginal restoration and one leaf of genealogy defective, also lacks Z10 and last 4 leaves (table of liturgical Gospels and Epistle readings and final blank). London: R. Jugge, 1568

  • Notes: first edition of the bishops' bible, "a revision of the Great Bible version, undertaken by Mathew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well-known Biblical scholars"--Herbert 125.

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