1683 Folio King James Bible with Geneva Notes and Maps

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. With Most Profitable Annotations upon all the hard places …

Description

Printed and engraved general title pages. Text in two column Roman font. Bound with Apocrypha. Printed New Testament title page. Six maps inserted including the Garden, the Canaan, Paul’s travels. First chapter floriated initials. Arguments before the chapters and Geneva notes in the margins of the text. Bound with the Whole Book of Psalms.      

Collation

*^6, **^6, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Nnn^6, Ooo^4, A-I^6, a-x^4. Complete.

Binding

Rebacked and recornered in matching brown calf. Covers with elaborate blind-paneled calf with blind rolls and rules around a central rectangular frame with the letters “W. S. E.” over beveled oak boards. Spine with six raised bands and the words “Holy bible” and “1683” lettered in gilt. Evidence of clasps. Plain endpapers.  

Condition

Thumbsoiling and staining; title page laid down with marginal loss; A1 closed tear and lower corner loss; maps with marginal tissue repairs; sporadic marginal repairs or losses. Psalter lacks all after Psalm 147.

Provenance

Family history records of Andrew Tregonna on verso of New Testament title and at the end of Revelation.  

Note

A tall folio Bible featuring the Authorized Version, as the Geneva version was banned from both printing and importation in England. This edition includes double-page maps, commonly found in English Bibles printed on the continent, along with the beloved Geneva notes, which remained popular among English readers into the early eighteenth century. The existence of seven editions of the King James text with Geneva notes demonstrates that the King James Version did not immediately achieve dominance.

References

Herbert 94; S126044; USTC 517869.