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The Bible, That Is The holy Scriptures contained in the Old &…
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Melbourne
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31-Jul-2016
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The Bible, That Is The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament., [Robert Barker, London, 1611], Geneva 'Breeches' Version, printed in double columns, with a large and fine general engraved title page (laid down), a large wood engraving of Adam and Eve (lower third torn away), 3 small engraved maps and many other small wood engravings in the text, small folio, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked. Some leaves frayed at the extremities., Bound in at the end, The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others...with apt Notes to Sing them withall.[Company of Stationers, London, 1612] incomplete at end., With a number of 17th century ownership notes including '.....Henry Morgan of the towne of Abergavenny in the county of Monmoth, gent., The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress (1678). It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower., This version of the Bible is significant because, for the very first time, a mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features - all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study 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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