Accession number
PML 855
Uniform title
Bible. French. Geneva. 1567.
Published
[Geneva] : De l'Imprimerie de François Estienne, M.D.LXVII [1567]
Description
1 volume (4 parts) : ill., fold. pl., maps (part fold.) ; 17 cm
Notes
Title vignette; double red line border; side notes.
A revision of Olivetan's version, prepared by the direction of the ministers of Geneva.
Contains music.
Part 2 has caption title only: Les livres apocryphes.
Part 3 has special t.p. only: Le
A revision of Olivetan's version, prepared by the direction of the ministers of Geneva.
Contains music.
Part 2 has caption title only: Les livres apocryphes.
Part 3 has special t.p. only: Le
Binding
Contemporary (Swiss?) calf, gilt panel (interlace, foliate, and masks) stamped with inset central gilt over panel, possibly by the Kings' Binder (see Nixon). Gilt, gauffered, and painted edges.
Provenance
Johann Georg Bünzel (1679-1734), bookplate (front pastedown); Georg Jakob Schwindell (1684-1752), of Nuremberg, inscription, 15 August 1728 (front endleaf 1 recto); W.H. Corfield (1848-1903), his sale, Sotheby's London, 21 Nov. 1904, lot 257; Toovey coll
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