Bible in English [Bishops' Bible, 2nd Folio Edition]

5 parts in one volume, folio (15 3/4 ix 10 3/4 in.; 400 x 273 mm).  Black letter, double columns, 57 lines to the full column, Proper Lessons etc., almanac, and calendar printed in red and black, woodcut signs of the Zodiac inserted in the margins of the calendar, two-version Psalter printed side by side: (1) The translation used in common prayer (taken originally from the Great Bible) in black letter and (2) The translation after the Hebrewes (ie., the Bishops' version) in roman type, 19 woodcut text illustrations, maps, and diagrams (several half-page), woodcut initial at the beginning of Joshua with the arms of the Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and initial at the beginning of Psalms with the arms of William Cecil, Baron Burghley, numerous other woodcut initials, many representing scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses; lacking the engraved map of Canaan, and 72 leaves including general title-page and preliminaries, divisional title-pages for Parts 2–3 and the Apocrypha, missing portions at the end supplied from another folio edition (Ephesians 5:5–I John 2:8) and from the Norton & Bill, 1621 quarto edition (II John–Revelations), portions in quire F (Acts of the Apostles Ch. 12–17), also from the Norton and Bill edition), nothwithstanding still missing I John 2:9–29, N5 defective (one-half page is torn away), extant preliminaries stained and frayed, a few other quires dampstained, some light text browning, internal tear on F1 slightly affecting text. Contemporary calf paneled in blind with roll tools over beveled wood boards, edges stained red; rebacked, covers worn, upper board stained and warped.

STC 2107; ESTC S121300; Herbert 132

The revised version of the 1569 edition containing a remarkable rendering of the Psalter, in which the translations of the Great Bible and the Bishops' Bible are printed in parallel, with the former in black letter and the latter in roman type.