Accession number
PML 925
Published
Imprinted at London : ... by Richard Iugge ..., [1568]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The first issue of the first ed. of the Bishops' Bible.
"A revision of the Great Bible version, undertaken by Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well known Biblical scholars" (Herbert).
Imprint from colophon.
Title page with engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I; woodcut illustrations throughout.
Printed by verse in black letter on both sides of the leaf in two columns per page, with chapter headings and marginal notes and references.
Numerous errors in paging.
Sheet size: 39.6 x 26.5 cm.
Includes Apocrypha.
Note by Psalm XLV mentions Columbus.
"A revision of the Great Bible version, undertaken by Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well known Biblical scholars" (Herbert).
Imprint from colophon.
Title page with engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I; woodcut illustrations throughout.
Printed by verse in black letter on both sides of the leaf in two columns per page, with chapter headings and marginal notes and references.
Numerous errors in paging.
Sheet size: 39.6 x 26.5 cm.
Includes Apocrypha.
Note by Psalm XLV mentions Columbus.
Description
1 v. : ill., maps ; 44 x 28 cm (folio)
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Russia.
Classification
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