Beschreibung:

Bible [English; Great Bible]. [The Byble in English, that is, the Olde and New Testament… Imprynted at London… by Edwarde Whitchurche…, 1549], 5 parts in one, 497 (of 608 leaves), double column, black letter, 57 lines to a full column, one woodcut (of 2) on folio 13v of part 1, occasional woodcut initials, closely trimmed affecting most running heads and side-notes throughout, some marginal fraying and tears throughout with small text losses (mostly side-notes) and infrequent small repairs, large tear with text loss to lower outer quarter of EE1, some soiling and occasional old damp stains, Iii7 misbound after Aaa8 and Eee7 misbound after Eee2, scattered early annotations and underscoring including f2v (early ownership name inscriptions of Richard Downes/Andrew Downes), m10v, L3v (George Downes), FF6v & GG3v (Richard ?), HH5v (Charles, George & Thomas Mathew, plus Amy Morgan), Aaa1r & Mmm8v, later facsimile title-page of the first Coverdale Version of 1535 supplied at front, modern morocco-backed wooden boards with two leather clasps, spine with gilt title and dated '1535' at foot, folio (300 x 195mm) This copy of the Great Bible version lacks a total of 111 leaves, including all 6 preliminary leaves, 3 leaves from (part 1) Pentateuch [b1, i4-5]; 13 leaves from (2) Joshua-Job [A1, N1-8, O1, R7-8, S6]; 34 leaves from (3) Psalms-Malachi [AA1, EE8, GG1, LL8, OO1-QQ7, RR8, SS1-2, TT1-4]; 13 leaves from (4) Apocrypha [Bbb1&8, Ddd4-5, Eee1&8, Fff1&8, Ggg1&8, Iii7-8, Kkk1]; and 42 leaves from (5) New Testament [[unsigned]1-2, A1-8, B1-3, G4-5, H1-6, M8, N1-8, O1-12]. Among the missing leaves are the general title and the part-titles to parts 2, 4 & 5; only the part-title to part 4, Apocrypha, being present. There were only two woodcuts in the text, the one lacking here being on folio 9v. Herbert 76; STC 2079.