English. [The Holy Bible...], King James version, 'She' bible, contents loose and incomplete, c. 430 ff., only, lacks titles and all other preliminaries, A1,2,5, C5, E5, N1,3,5,6, Q6, T1,6, Z6, sig 2O, 3B2-5, sig. 3C, SG, 3X-4M, 4P-X, 5A1,6, sig 5C, 5D1, 5E1,6, 5H2-4, sig 5I-5S, 5Y3, 6A2-6, 6B1,2,5,6, and all thereafter, sig. 2Q,Q and first & last few ff. defective, all other ff. more or less seriously frayed creased, and many inner margins torn, but with little loss of text, little staining and marking, loosely inserted, in bifolia or single ff., in the remains of a contemporary, perhaps the orginal, binding, dark brown calf over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled, brass centre and corner pieces, and strip along inner edge, remains of clasps, worn, lower cover split, and calf defective, spine defective and with remains of suede cover, label inside front cover describes the book as 'Old Bible, bought of gypsies', [?Herbert 353], folio, [?Robert Barker, 1617], sold not subject to return.. *** An early 'Great She' Bible, with the reading 'she went into the citie' in Ruth iii, 15, but without the 'remarkable error' of 'Judas' for 'Jesus' in Matt. xxvi, 36.
English. [The Holy Bible...], King James version, 'She' bible, contents loose and incomplete, c. 430 ff., only, lacks titles and all other preliminaries, A1,2,5, C5, E5, N1,3,5,6, Q6, T1,6, Z6, sig 2O, 3B2-5, sig. 3C, SG, 3X-4M, 4P-X, 5A1,6, sig 5C, 5D1, 5E1,6, 5H2-4, sig 5I-5S, 5Y3, 6A2-6, 6B1,2,5,6, and all thereafter, sig. 2Q,Q and first & last few ff. defective, all other ff. more or less seriously frayed creased, and many inner margins torn, but with little loss of text, little staining and marking, loosely inserted, in bifolia or single ff., in the remains of a contemporary, perhaps the orginal, binding, dark brown calf over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled, brass centre and corner pieces, and strip along inner edge, remains of clasps, worn, lower cover split, and calf defective, spine defective and with remains of suede cover, label inside front cover describes the book as 'Old Bible, bought of gypsies', [?Herbert 353], folio, [?Robert Barker, 1617], sold not subject to return.. *** An early 'Great She' Bible, with the reading 'she went into the citie' in Ruth iii, 15, but without the 'remarkable error' of 'Judas' for 'Jesus' in Matt. xxvi, 36.
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