Beschreibung:

Bible, English. [The Holie Bible, Bishop's version], 2 vol., black letter, double column, woodcut illustrations, maps and initials, divisional titles to parts 2 and 3 with the engraved portraits of the Earl of Leicester and Lord Burghley, lacking engrave map of Canaan and c.37 of 732ff. (all before *3, including general title, 15 leaves of preliminaries; P7, Q-R8, S4 lacking from New Testament), several ff. repaired with loss (many somewhat crudely), occasional browning or soiling, 19th century calf-backed boards, rather worn, [Herbert 132], folio, [By Richarde Jugge], [1572]; sold not subject to return. ⁂ The second folio edition of the Bishops' Bible, almost always found incomplete, this copy better than most. " A remarkable feature of this edition is its two-version Psalter, which exhibits, printed side by side, (1) The translation used in common prayer (taken originally from the Great Bible, and still retained in the Prayer Book) in black-letter, and (2) The translation after the Hebrewes (i.e. the Bishops' version) in roman type." - Herbert. A grand 16th-century black letter printing on strong paper, one of the most beautiful printings of the English bible.