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Bible, English. The Bible: That is The Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and the New Testament, double column, title with woodcut vignette, Old and New Testament headings within woodcut borders, woodcut initials and large woodcut tail-piece at end, last 2ff. blank at end, X6 & 7 lower margins cut affecting catchwords, 2H2 & 3 corners torn away slightly affecting a few words of text, manuscript date 1578 in corner of title, [Herbert 149; STC 2120; ESTC lists 2 copies only, not in the BL], London, Christopher Barkar [Barker], dwelling in Paternoster Rowe at the signe of the Tygres head, 1577; bound with at end Sternhold and Hopkins The Whole Booke of Psalmes, woodcut vignette on title and tail-piece, lacks H2 last f. (?blank), [not listed in STC], London, John Day, date from colophon 1577 and manuscript date 1578, and an incomplete Book of Common Prayer, 1626, first and second mentioned ruled in red throughout, some ff. creased, browned throughout, contemporary calf, ornate gilt corner and centre pieces with initials "TN", gilt faded, corners bumped, rebacked in 19th century straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed, g.e., 8vo. ⁂ An extremely scarce Elizabethan pocket bible.

london, Vereinigtes Königreich