An early 17th century Geneva Bible (Breeches Bible), imprinted at London by Robert Barker,
Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1603, with later additions:
'Two Right profitable and Fruitfiull Concordances...
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie',
' The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins...
Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Daye 1603',
with ink inscribed inscriptions throughout, the family tree of John & Sarah Baker of St Ives 1811 inscribed on the interior boards,
bound in leather with blind tooled decoration and brass mounts
Size 7 by 9.5"
Thickness 4.5"
Old repair to the spine, with damage.
Missing 1 clasp.
Missing frontispieces for Old and New Testaments , endpapers and some pages.
Text in English.
Not illustrated
Rare.

The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years.
It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower. (Pilgrim Hall Museum has collected several Bibles of Mayflower passengers.) The Geneva Bible was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War, in the booklet The Souldiers Pocket Bible.
One interesting variation of the Geneva Bible is the so-called "Breeches Bible", the first of which appeared in 1579. In the Breeches Bible, Genesis Chapter III Verse 7 reads: "Then the eies of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches." In the King James Version of 1611, "breeches" was changed to "aprons". Geneva Bibles with the "breeches" passage continued to be printed well into the time of the King James Bible of 1611.



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