BIBLE IN ENGLISH (KING JAMES VERSION) | The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. London: Robert Barker, [1613]

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (KING JAMES VERSION)

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. London: Robert Barker, [1613]

4to (8 x 6 1/8 in.; 205 x 156 mm). Black letter, text in two columns, general and New Testament titles in heart-shaped center within woodcut border, woodcut initials head-and tailpieces; A8 defective and repaired, a few other leaves with marginal loss and repair, lightly browned and soiled, cut close with an occasional headline, shoulder-note, catchword, or signature mark shaved. Bound with Speed's Genealogies (ca. 1617); Robert Herrey's Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances, or large and ample tables alphabeticall (London: Barker, 1615; STC 13234); The Book of Common Prayer (London: Barker and the Assignes of John Bill, 1641; this edition not traced in Wing or ESTC); The Whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, Iohn Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall (London: for the Company of Stationers, 1619; STC 2564.6); The Whole booke of Psalmes lacks final 2 leaves, at least one leaf also lacking from The Book of Common Prayer, other defects to the ancillary texts. Early nineteenth-century polished calf, gray slate endpapers, red edges; rubbed, rebacked with other repair. Black cloth folding-case.

The first quarto edition of the King James Bible in black letter, with "he" in Ruth 3:15. "This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which had proved so popular" (Herbert).

REFERENCES

STC 2227; ESTC S121317; Herbert 323

PROVENANCE

Eighteenth-century genealogical notes on the Bennet family (Ss6v)