1595; Laurence Tomson; London, Deputies of Christopher Barker; Psalms 1594 John Windet for Richard Day; Full Leather, Re-backed/Rebound; Metal Ornaments; Illustrated; Common Prayer About 50 Pgs., Concordance About 200 Pgs., O.T. 4/190/198 Pgs., N.T. 2/118 Pgs., Table of Interpretation 28 Pgs., 2nd N.T. 441-556 Pgs. (Complete/End), Psalms 110 Pages; w6.7"xh9.2", 3.8" Thick; Very Rare!

• Beautiful Original full leather laid down with brass decorated lozenges and centerpieces, anchors of clasps, with a brown spine label, with a few pages of manuscript notes pasted in front/rear, some marginal notes, with 15-20 in text illustrations, a few maps (one with two fishes/sea monsters), sheet music to Psalms, pretty illustrated title pages, decorated initials/headings/endings, and a Great Read; Rare in English & Both Title Pages to the Old/New Testaments!

• The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower (Pilgrim Hall Museum has collected several Bibles of Mayflower passengers), and its frontispiece inspired Franklin's design for the first Great Seal of the United States.

  
  

• The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of its extensive marginal notes. These notes, written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin and others, were intended to help explain and interpret the Scriptures for the average reader.
  

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• The Bible: That Is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke …… The New Testament of Our Lord …. Englished by L. Tomson.
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• The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, Geneva or ‘Breeches’ bible, quarto in eights.
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• Followed by a second New Testament without title page, comprising three preliminary leaves (*ii-iv), leaves numbered 441-554, (leaf 441 is the first page of St Matthew’s Gospel, with signature 3K1, no colophon at end), Worm track to head of leaves in first half of this NT, entering text in places;
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• Preceded by Common Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, of that Translation which is appointed to be used in Churches.
  The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, quarto in eights, comprising title and seven calendar pages (heavily worn and restored), then leaves A-E8;
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• and R.F.H., Two Right Profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall …The Deputies of Christopher Barker, no date, leaves A-K8, L2, some marginal annotation; 
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• And followed by Psalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John
  Hopkins, and others …Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1594, quarto in eights, [10], 97, [98-110] pages.