Title: The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places etc; Bound With; The Book of Common Prayer; Bound with; The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meeter, 1597/1598
Publisher: London, Christopher Barker; London, Printed by John Windet for the assignes of Richard Daye
Condition: Good
A late 16th century Geneva Bible, printed by Christopher Barker, still bound in its original contemporary binding, with traces of the central cover stamps still discernable. Additionally bound at the beginning is a Common Prayer, and after the Bible is a Whole Book of Psalms, by John Windet.
This compilation of texts is lacking the title and a2 leaf to the Book of Common Prayer, the Old Testament title page to the Bible (The New Testament title is present, the Bible itself being textually complete), and The Book of Psalms is lacking the last 7 numbered pages, as well as the last 11 unnumbered pages.
Three works bound into one volume in quarto, 38 of 39 leaves; 554 leaves; (10)+84 of 91 pages
This volume is in good shape, with rubbing and scuffing to the binding, and only one clasp present. There is foxing and staining throughout, with some of the page edges worn, and parts of the text block jutting out more than others. Leaves 220-221 are most affected by staining, with several lines of text supplanted by hand. Several leaves show signs of early restoration work.