Bible, Italian, [Geneva], 1596, eighteenth-century English navy morocco gilt

Bible. New Testament. Italian

Il nuovo testamento di Iesu Christo nostro Signore, nuovamente riveduto e ricorretto secondo la Verita del testo greco, & di molte & utili annotationi illustrato. [Geneva]: heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1596

8vo (159 x 98mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, eighteenth-century English navy morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, lacking final leaf (containing the end of the table), binding somewhat rubbed, lacking lettering-pieces

A reprint of Antonio Brucioli's Italian translation, issued in Geneva to avoid ecclesiastical restrictions in Italy.

The same border can be seen on a 1744 edition of Swift, illustrated in Stuart Bennet, Trade Bookbindng in the British Isles 1660-1800, p.133.

LITERATURE:

Darlow & Moule 5596; Edit16 5965 or 5966; GLN-5849

PROVENANCE:

James Adair, alumnus of Westminster School, inscription dated 1793; William Clark, armorial bookplate and note "Collated & perfect except 1 or 2 leaves in the table that are wanting"