[BREECHES / GENEVA BIBLE] - THE BIBLE

[BREECHES / GENEVA BIBLE] - THE BIBLE, that is, the holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. London, by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1599 [bound with] THE NEW TESTAMENT...Englished by L Tomson. London, Christopher Barker, 1599. 4to, engraved pictorial general title page with title within heart shaped centre enclosed by block border with symbols of the twelve tribes to the left, the twelve apostles to the right and an evangelist at each inner corner, Matthew and Mark above, Luke and John below, general letterpress title with small woodcut of Crossing the Red Sea, dated 1599, divisional title page to Second Part of Old Testament but without imprint, New Testament engraved title page with same border of tribes and apostles, dated 1599, maps and illustrations in the text of the Old Testament, plus 1 map in the New (The Printer to the Diligent Reader, with a map of the Holy Land to the verso). Boards detached and lacking spine, first and last few leaves loose, page corners rounded, cropped close in parts occasionally affecting marginal notes, contained in a solander box, w.a.f.; THE HOLY BIBLE...London, Mark Baskett, 1766. 4to, attractively rebound in modern brown calf, new end-papers. Provenance: St John's College, Nottingham (2)