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Bible, English. The Bible. That Is, The Holy Scriptvres (sic) Contained in The Old and New Testament [...], Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, third edition thus, Amsterdam: Printed by Thomas Stafford: And are to be sold at his house, at the signe (sic) of the Flight of Brabant, upon the Milk-market, over against the Devnter Wood-market [...], 1644 [the second reprinting] According to the Copy printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart, in the yeare (sic) 1610, general and NT titles, the latter dated 1640, foliate initials, Roman type, double-column, title and address leaves repaired, tatty and with some losses, occasional quires of further leaves similarly tatty and with various chipped losses, particularly the later New Testament and the four-column Psalms of David in Meter, otherwise uncollated, some stains in places, but never affecting the legibility of the extant text, contemporary panelled reverse calf over boards, retaining brass clasps, disbound, worn and rubbed, perished spine, folio (34.5 x 23cm), [Herbert 579]
Provenance: Verso of NT title with 17th century and later genealogical manuscript notes viz. the marriage of William Boswell and Margaret Montgomery in 1690, their antecedents and descendants, one of whom, though not mentioned here, was Johnson's biographer and friend: James Boswell of Auchinleck; culminating elsewhere at Jane Douglas Boswell's Bible, 4 January 1829 ; ffep with manuscript pencil ownership inscription.
One of the earliest English Bibles deliberately to omit the Apocrypha from the list of biblical books, and '[p]robably the latest seventeenth-century issue of the Geneva Bible'.
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