Bible in English. New Testament [Fulke's Refutation]

Two works in one volume, folio (14 x 9 in.; 356 x 229 mm). Engraved title-page and frontispiece portrait, both by William Marshall, text in parallel columns (Rheims version in roman type, Bishops' version in italics), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, ?errata slip pasted in as last line of Bbbb5v; light occasional paper discoloration, one fore-edge tear not affecting text, two rust holes costing a few letters or words; withal a bright fresh copy. Issued with: Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures to the English Tongue. London: Augustine Mathewes, 1633. Text and side-notes in roman, italic, Hebrew, and Greek types. Eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt, edges mottled green; worn, upper board detached.

Lawrence Strangman (bookplate)

New Testament: STC 2947; ESTC S121246; Herbert 480.  Defense: STC 11432; ESTC S121259

Two works in one volume, folio (14 x 9 in.; 356 x 229 mm). Engraved title-page and frontispiece portrait, both by William Marshall, text in parallel columns (Rheims version in roman type, Bishops' version in italics), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, ?errata slip pasted in as last line of Bbbb5v; light occasional paper discoloration, one fore-edge tear not affecting text, two rust holes costing a few letters or words; withal a bright fresh copy. Issued with: Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures to the English Tongue. London: Augustine Mathewes, 1633. Text and side-notes in roman, italic, Hebrew, and Greek types. Eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt, edges mottled green; worn, upper board detached.
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The fourth edition, a sound copy. The Defense is a reprinting of and reply to Gregory Martin's A Discoverie of Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures of the Heretikes.