Bible, English. [The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages], mostly black letter, double column, an interleaved copy, lacking initial 54ff (all before A1) including title and Book of Common Prayer, several ffs with marginal defects and some loss of text, title from a 1608 New Testament loosely inserted, [STC 2144], by Robert Barker, [1585] bound with Tvvo Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, black letter, [STC 13228b.2], by Christopher Barker, [1581] and The whole booke of psalmes, collected into English meter by T. Sternhold et al., black letter, double column, lacking final 7ff (all after H1), [STC 2458], by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1581, together 3 works in 3 vol., damp staining, soiling, ink marginalia, annotations and inscriptions, end papers loose, eighteenth century reverse calf, heavily worn, vol. 3 upper cover detached, 8vo; sold not subject to return.

⁂ An interesting variant of the Geneva Bible, known as the 'Breeches Bible', first appearing in 1579, the name deriving from the translation of Genesis 3:7, "...they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches".