Bible in English [Bishops' Bible, Last Folio Edition]

3 parts in one volume, folio (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.; 388 x 260 mm). Black letter, text in double columns within ruled borders, with outside columns for printed side-notes, 71 lines to the full column, almanac printed in red and black, genealogical tables (quire C) with woodcut roundel of Adam and Eve, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in Eden, titles for Apocrypha and New Testament within woodcut borders (McKerrow & Ferguson 158 and 168) with continuous register and foliation, 2 woodcut diagrams and one woodcut map of the Holy Land, headpieces of printer's ornaments or woodblocks, woodcut initials (some historiated) and tailpieces; lacking general title and 9 preliminary leaves (quire A⁶, leaves B1 and 3–5), final leaves Ooo2–4, leaves B1 and 6, ²A1, and Ooo1 stained, frayed, and defective with varying degrees of text loss, quire C with losses to text and to full-page woodcut border, dampstaining to lower outside corners and fore-edges, large stain Uuu3 migrating slightly to NT title-page, burn hole on Yyy4 costing a few words in 3 lines, a few other leaves frayed or torn at corners, just touching the ruled border.  Eighteenth-century calf, border roll-tooled in blind; rebacked, some oxidation and staining to covers.  

Rebecca Southcombe (signature on Ggg3v dated September 1767). acquisition: Humber Books, South Humberside, England, 2002

STC 2188; ESTC  S122093; Herbert 271

3 parts in one volume, folio (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.; 388 x 260 mm). Black letter, text in double columns within ruled borders, with outside columns for printed side-notes, 71 lines to the full column, almanac printed in red and black, genealogical tables (quire C) with woodcut roundel of Adam and Eve, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in Eden, titles for Apocrypha and New Testament within woodcut borders (McKerrow & Ferguson 158 and 168) with continuous register and foliation, 2 woodcut diagrams and one woodcut map of the Holy Land, headpieces of printer's ornaments or woodblocks, woodcut initials (some historiated) and tailpieces; lacking general title and 9 preliminary leaves (quire A6, leaves B1 and 3–5), final leaves Ooo2–4, leaves B1 and 6, 2A1, and Ooo1 stained, frayed, and defective with varying degrees of text loss, quire C with losses to text and to full-page woodcut border, dampstaining to lower outside corners and fore-edges, large stain Uuu3 migrating slightly to NT title-page, burn hole on Yyy4 costing a few words in 3 lines, a few other leaves frayed or torn at corners, just touching the ruled border. Eighteenth-century calf, border roll-tooled in blind; rebacked, some oxidation and staining to covers.
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The last edition of the Bishops' Bible.