1588, The ‘Breeches’Bible, Geneva Version of the Elizabethan Bible, Both Testaments, Psalms

The Bible. Translatedaccording to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations indivers Languages, With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places,and other things of great importance, as my appeare in the Epistle to theReader. And also a most profitable Concordance for the readie finding out ofany thing in the same conteined. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printerto the Queen, 1588. Quarto, contemporary leather, 555 pages + two concordances+ Book of Psalmes from 1599 (86 pages) + 70 pages of the Book of Common Prayerlaid-in at end.

Commonlyreferred to as the ‘Geneva Version’,this printing of the Bible received that name as it was first issued in 1560 byEnglish Protestants who fled toGeneva during the reign of the CatholicQueen Mary; it is also referred to as the ‘Breeches Bible’ because it was the first Bible to translate the fig leaves worn by Adam and Eve asBreeches instead of as Aprons. Now offered for your consideration is this 1588printing of this Elizabethan Era Bible: The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrewand Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers Languages…

Condition:Offered AS IS, with all faults. This quarto, measuring 8 ¾ inches by 6 ¼ inches,is bound in contemporary leather. Spine in poor condition; bands holding. The titlepage and following 8 leaves bound at beginning of New Testament. Pages 9-14 inGenesis lacking. The Whole Book ofPsalmes printed in 1599 is bound-in; multiple torn or lacking pages to thissection. Also laid in are approximately 70 pages of the Book of Common Prayer.Several names and family recordings are written throughout in an old handdating from 1619 to 1726. Offered AS IS, this 1588 printing of a ‘BreechesBible’ is offered with ; this is an ideal reference for the workingscholar or disciple interested in a Bible used during the Elizabethan era.