titles both of the Old and New Testaments, in this copy, and it has the omission of the word 'not' in Matthew vi. 2, like other copies of the same date. But the colophon at the end of the Tables has: "Imprinted at Amsterdam for Thomas Crafoorth, by John Fredericksz Stam, dwelling by the South Church at the Signe of the Hope, 1633." The Metrical Psalms are "Imprinted by I. L. for the Company of Stationers, London, 1633."

55. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1600. 4to.

This is a black-letter copy and is apparently the first Bible printed by Robert Barker, son of Christopher Barker. Ruth iii. 15 reads as in the 1599 blackletter copy: "Hee went into the citie," most of the others reading "Shee," or "And went into the citie."

56. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Tomson's revision. 1600. 4to. This copy is in Roman letter and without date or printer's name. It is commonly called the Goose Bible, from the figure of a goose on the title-page of the Metrical Psalms, and from which it is supposed to have been printed at Dort. The last two leaves of the Tables bearing the imprint of the Deputies of Christopher Barker, London, 1599, appear to be an insertion.

57. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Tomson's revision. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1602. Folio.

This is a beautiful copy in fine binding. It has the two titles and colophon dated 1602, but the Metrical Psalms at the end have the imprint of John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1595. At the beginning is a fine copy of the Book of Common Prayer without date, but with a profusion of ornamental initial letters, many of which are evidently representations of classical scenes probably from Ovid's Metamorphoses as in the Bishops' Bible of 1572. The Psalter, which also precedes the Bible, bears the imprint of Robert Barker,

1600.

58. The Holy Bible. Robert Barker. 1602.

(Bishops' version.) Imprinted at London by Folio.

A black-letter copy with ornamental initial letters. It has some curious readings: Psalm xxvii. 29, "The righteous shal be punished"; Ecclesiastes xi. 1, Lay thy bread upon wet faces, and so shalt thou find it after many days"; Jeremiah viit. 22, "Is there not Triacle at Gilead?" This copy has the old chain attached to the wooden boards by which it had been fastened to a reading-desk.

59. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1603. 4to.

This must be a rather rare edition, and is a nice copy, excellently printed in

Roman letter and ruled in red round the pages. In the description of the wicked man in Job xv. 27 is a curious reading: "Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and hath collops in his flanke." Also the word "world" is omitted in Luke ii. 1. At the beginning a black-letter copy of the Book of Common Prayer, 1636, is bound in with the volume. The Metrical Psalms at the end have the date 1635.

60. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1605. 4to.

This is a very good copy in black-letter of the pure Genevan Bible of 1560. It has the large Tables of Concordance, but no Métrical Psalms. On a fly-leaf at the beginning of the New Testament it is inscribed: "Marie Grifth her booke 1616," and "Roger Weever and Rebeckha Weever there booke 1647."

61. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Tomson's revision. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1606. 4to.

This is a nicely bound copy, wanting the first title, which is a facsimile, but having the original title of the New Testament, which is dated 1606, though the coloplion at the end has 1605. It has the Metrical Psalms of 1606, and a copy of the Book of Common Prayer of 1650 is bound in at the commencement of the volume.

62. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1608. 4to.

This is a poor copy. supplied in facsimile.

It wants the title to the New Testament, which is It has no Metrical Psalms. On the first title is the inscription: "Charles Woolnough is ye true owner of this Booke."

63. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1608. 8vo.

This, though rather a poor copy of a somewhat rare edition, is complete. At the beginning is a quaint woodcut of the Temptation in the Garden of Eden with all the beasts roaming around,

64. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Burker. 1609. 4to.

This is a fair copy with red lines round the page, and has inserted a portrait of its former possessor, Rev. Joseph Ivimey, Portsea, being a gift to him from Mr Chamberlain, an eminent Baptist missionary.

65. The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English out of the

Authentical Latin &c. by the English College of Doway.

Printed at

Doway by Laurence Kellam, at the Signe of the Holie Lambe. 1609.

2 vols. 4to.

This copy is in fine condition and well bound. This translation of the Old Testament is the first English version printed for the use of the Roman Catholics. The English translation of the New Testament which goes with it was first printed at Rhemes in 1582.

66. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Tomson's revision. At Edinburgh, Printed by Andro Hart, and are to be sold at his Buith, on the north side of the gate, a little beneath the Crosse. Anno. Dom. 1610. Folio.

This is the second edition of the Bible printed in Scotland and was highly thought of, many subsequent impressions making a merit of being "conform to the edition printed by Andro Hart." Yet it is by no means absolutely correct. In Exodus xxx. 12 a whole line, or clause, "that there be no plague among them," has been missed out. Similarly in Deuteronomy xiii. 9 the words "and then the hands of all the people" are likewise wanting. A number of Dutch maps inserted in this copy have very quaint and curious vignettes at top and bottom.

67. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Tomson's revision. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1610. 4to.

This copy wants the first title, which is supplied by a facsimile of 1599. It has the New Testament title of 1610 and the colophon is dated 1611. At the end are The Psalmss of David in Meeter, with the tunes, printed by Andro Hart. On the fly-leaf at the beginning is a memorandum: "Robert Watson bought this Bible at Berwick in 1670, price 2s. 7d."

68. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1611. 4to.

This copy wants both title-pages, but the colophon gives the date 1611. Bound in with it are the Metrical Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins, printed at London for the Company of Stationers, 1610.

69. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1611. Folio.

This is the second of two impressions of the Authorised version issued in 1611, as is indicated by the absence of the large woodcut of the Arms of King James, and the presence in its place of the letterpress title to the Genealogies. The text is in black-letter with ornamental initials. This copy wants the first

title (which is supplied in facsimile), and contains only the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.

70. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1612. 1612. 4to.

This is the first quarto edition of the Royal or Authorised version, and is rather rare. It is a good copy and quite complete. In Leviticus xxvi. 40 there is a curious variant, and in Deuteronomy iv. 47 the first line of the verse is repeated. In 2nd Timothy iv. 13 the words "and the books" are omitted.

71. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1613. 4to.

This is the second quarto edition of the Royal or Authorised version. It is the last of the "he" Bibles, having the reading in Ruth, "and he went into the citie," where our version has “and she." It has also the omission of the words "and the books" in 2nd Timothy iv. 13. It is a good copy in rather a quaint binding with brass corner-pieces and clasps.

72. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1613. Folio.

This is apparently a second issue of the folio of 1611, but with numerous blunders. In Matthew xiii. 8 the words "some sixtie fold" are omitted. On the fly-leaf is a memorandum: "This Book was bound in March 20th 173, Paid for the Binding 128. Od. to Mr Crotch by me, William Clark, Churchwarden."

73. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker. 1615. 4to.

A fairly good copy in black-letter, with the Metrical Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins at the end. Bound in with it at the beginning is the Book of Common Prayer of 1630, and the Genealogies by J. S.

74. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Robert Burker. 1616. Folio.

This is the first folio edition of the Roval version printed in Roman letter. It has both titles, and is quite complete. There are no Metrical Psalms. The page opposite the title of the Genealogies is occupied by a curious woodcut of the Temptation and Fall, in which Adam and Eve and the serpent hold scrolls inscribed with couplets of quant versification, descriptive of the effects of the Fall, and announcing the promise of Redemption,

75. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. London by Bonham Norton and John Bill.

1619. 4to.

Imprinted at

This copy of the Authorised version in Roman letter is not in first-rate condition, but the text is complete, and it has prefixed the curious map and description of Canaan, which is very often wanting. In 1st John v. 13 there is a curious misprint of "the Sion of God" for "the Sonne of God."

76. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill. 1620. 4to.

This copy of the Authorised version in black-letter is complete. The colophon has the date 1621, and the Tables of Concordance, which "will serve as well for the translation called Geneva," are dated 1622.

77. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill. 1622. 8vo.

This is a nice copy of the Royal version in Roman letter, and has the edges gilt and finely ornamented, and the text and preliminaries, and the Metrical Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins, all complete. Between the fly-leaves at the end is inserted part of a leaf of a manuscript Book of Hours of apparently about fourteenth century date.

78. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill. 1625. 4to.

A fairly good copy of this edition of the Royal version in black-letter, with Speed's Genealogies and the map and description of Canaan prefixed, and the Metrical Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins, dated 1626, bound in at the end.

79. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Printed at London by Robert Barker. 1632. 8vo.

A fine copy of this rather rare edition, in the original stamped Morocco binding, but without the clasps. It has all the titles and the Metrical Psalms complete. The Book of Common Prayer prefixed wants the title and following leaf. A woodcut of the Royal Arms occupies the reverse of the general title. No copy of this edition was exhibited at the Caxton Celebration in 1877. It is not in Lea Wilson's Catalogue, and only one copy is mentioned by Lowndes.

80. The Holy Bible. Royal or Authorised version. Printed by the Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majestie. Edinburgh, 1633. 8vo.

This is the first edition of the Royal or Authorised version of the Bible

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