A hyve full of hunnye
Subtitle: contayning the firste booke of Moses, called Genesis
By: turned into English meetre, by VVilliam Hunnis, one of the gent. of Her Maiesties Chappel, and maister to the Children of the same
Contributors: Marsh, Thomas, active 1554-1587, printer; Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588, dedicatee; De Coverly, R. (Roger), 1831- binder; Gaisford, Thomas, 1779-1855, former owner
Publisher: By Thomas Marsh
Published: 1578
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet, neere vnto Sainct Dunstanes Church
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Other titles: Hyve fvll of hunnye; Hive full of honey; Hunnis's Book of Genesis in verse. 1578
Work titles: Bible. Genesis. English. Hunnis. 1578
Notes: Dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Leicester's crest on verso of title page; arms of Hunnis on recto of leaf [3].

Signatures: píþ A-2Ḱþ.

Several variants exist: 1. Title page has "honeye"; 2. Leaf pi3 verso has "Nevvton" in roman type, or "Newton" in italic; 3. Leaf 2k4 verso is blank, or contains errata.

Printed in gothic type.

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet, neere vnto S. Dunstanes Churche by Thomas Marsh. 1578.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 13974

English short title catalogue, entry S106275

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, vol. 1, page xxvii

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by De Coverly in brown morocco double-panelled in gilt and blind. The spine is tooled and stamped in gilt. The armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford is present on the front pastedown and the bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund is present on the rear pastedown. In this copy, the title page is in facsimile and numerous pages are torn and repaired with losses replaced in facsimile.