1582 Folio Geneva Bible with Fold-Out Double Page Map

[The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament.]

Summary

A folio Geneva Bible with the text in Roman font and the complete set of woodcut illustrations and maps. Bound in paneled brown morocco with a double-page map in Acts.

Description

Begins with Genesis 1, lacking the preliminaries and the general title page. Text in two column Roman font. Complete set of woodcut illustrations and map. Includes Apocrypha as issued. Printed New Testament title page (1582) with woodcut of the Red Sea. Fold-out map of the Countries and Places Mentioned in Acts inserted at Acts 1. Bible text ends with printer’s device and the Two Tables. Bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1583) by Sternhold and Hopkins with architectural border, lacks all after Psalm 134. First chapter woodcut initials throughout. Fourteen page hand-written overview of the Geneva Bible laid in.

Collation

A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Ooo^6, Aaaa-Mmmm^6, Nnnn^4, [unsigned]^2, Aaaaa-Xxxxx^6. Bible text complete, lacks prelims and general title.

Binding

Rebound in late nineteenth century in brown morocco. Boards with double black-lined panels and fleurons. Spine with five raised bands and black-lines and fleurons to compartments with the title “Holy Bible” and “1582” lettered in gilt. All edges red. Later green marbled endpapers.  

Condition

Generally clean and bright throughout; A1,2 repair to gutter and fore-edge with loss to sidenotes; A3,4 loss to fore-edge costing a letter of sidenotes; a few headlines occasionally cropped; Rr4 upper closed tear without loss; Aaa6 small burn hole costing two letters; one marginal tear; final two extant leaves of Psalter repaired to fore-edge.

Provenance

Family history records of the Austin and Gibbons families on front endpaper, leaf before Apocrypha, verso of NT title, and end of Revelation.

References

Herbert 173.