The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptvres contained in the Old and New Testament
By: translated according to the Hebrew and Greek, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages ; with most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance
Contributors: Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602; Stafford, Thomas; Tomson, Laurence, 1539-1608
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Stafford, and are to be sold at his House ...
Published: 1640
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1080
Other titles: New Testament of Ovr Lord Iesvs Christ
Work titles: Bible English Geneva 1640
Notes: Known as the Geneva version; also called the "Breeches Bible" from its rendering of Genesis III.7. Printed without Apocrypha, except for the Prayer of Mannasses.

Title from NUC. T.p. vignette.

N.T. has own t.p.: The New Testament of Ovr Lord Iesvs Christ / ... englished by L. Tomson ; ... annotations of Fr. Iunius upon the Revelation of St. Iohn. Amsterdam : Printed by Thomas Stafford ... 1640.

"2nd A-Hh (Psalms to Ezek. xl) have headlines in italic and are pr[inted] by Christiaens [at Leiden]"--STC.

At foot of both t.p.: According to the copy printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart ... 1610.

Signatures: [paragraph]⁴ A-2Q⁶, ²A-2P⁴ ²2Q⁶, ²[paragraph]², ³[paragraph]², ³A-2M⁴ ([paragraph]1 blank).

Pagination: [8], 469 [i.e. 467], [1], 323 [i.e. 315], [9], 267, [13] p.

References: BLC, v. 28, p. 380 (L.8.b.7.1); Darlow & Moule 424; Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, no. 545; NUC pre-1956, v. 53, p. 123; STC (2nd ed.) 2344.

OONL copy. Imperfect: wants t.p., leaves signed [paragraph]1-3, and gathering ²[paragraph]² (which contains "An admonition to the Christian reader concerning the Apocryphal books"). Copy soiled, stained; leaves at beginning and end mutilated, some loss of text. 35 errors in pagination; also, p. 277-278 (1st numbered sequence) and p. 185-194 (2nd numbered sequence) omitted in numbering; p. 305-306 duplicated. Leaves H2, Y5, ²2O3 missigned H3, Y, 2O4.