Bible in English [Great Bible, 4th Edition]

Folio (15 1/2 x 11 in.; 394 x 279 mm). General title and New Testament title  printed in red and black within woodcut border with Cromwell's arms removed, calendar printed in red and black (*2 in facsimile), divisional titles for Parts 3–4 printed in red and black within a borders composed of 16 woodblocks, each part with separate register and foliation, black letter, text in 2 columns with 65 lines to a full column, 62 lines in NT, numerous woodcut text illustrations and initials; general title and colophon leaf defective, repaired and mounted with part of upper outer and lower sections missing, lacking the first 2 leaves of the Prologue, title-pages for Part 2 and New Testament; colophon leaf Nn8 defective costing one-half of table and all of colophon, lower margin of c7 torn away costing some text in 3 lines, long tears cutting through text in about a dozen leaves, numerous short tears chiefly along bottom margin, lower outer corners creased throughout, occasional light dampstaining. Eighteenth-century speckled calf, double-filleted gilt border and gilt coat of arms on both covers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, 2 lettering pieces, plain endpapers and edges; a few old scrapes, extremities rubbed.

Lionel Tollemache Huntingtower Dysart, 4th Earl of Dysart, 1708–1770 (gilt arms and cypher "L.T.H.D." on covers, shelfmark on front pastedown; not included in the sale of The Library at Helmingham Hall, Sotheby's London, 14 June 1965). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch 

STC 2072; ESTC S121968; Herbert 60 (NT collation: Aa–Kk⁸ Ll–Mm⁶)

The fourth Great Bible (November 1540) and the third with Cranmer's prologue. The colophon, according to Herbert, gives the date of November 1540, but the publication apparently was delayed, as the title-page bears the date 1541, and is the same as that used for the Great Bible of November 1541. The woodcut above the title for Part 3 whimsically depicts a fool riding a hobby horse.

 "Though this edition claims to be "oversene and perused  by Bishops Tunstall (1474–1559) and Heath (?1501–1578), the text show no sign of careful revision; indeed in many parts it approximates more closely to that of 1539 than to that of April of July 1540. This and the Nov. 1541 edition, though printed in the same style as the five other Great Bibles, have a slightly longer page, which contains 65, instead of 62 lines in a full column" (Herbert).

However, in this copy, the line count for the New Testament is 62 lines to the full column instead of 65, with the following collation: Aa–Ll⁸ Mm⁶ Nn⁸. Therefore, this portion of the text was most likely made up from various issues of the Great Bible 1539–41.