The 1560 Geneva Bible: Gibbor Limited Edition Printing

Summary: Litchfield Park, Arizona: The Bible Museum, 2006. 4to (10.75" x 9"). No. 245 of limited edition of 300 copies. Hardcover bound in the publisher's original full brown calf. Includes an early Geneva Bible leaf.

Description: The 1560 Geneva Bible is the work of religious leaders exiled from England to Geneva, Switzerland. It was the first Bible in English to divide the scriptures into numbered verses. It was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries. Shakespeare quoted the Geneva Bible more than 5,000 times in his plays. The images contained within the Bible were produced by woodcuts. The marginal notes were key to its popularity. These notes were not yet accepted by the Church of England and led to the Bible's demise. King James I considered the Geneva Bible "seditious". The Pilgrims and Puritans brought the Geneva Bible to America. 

This replica edition has been digitally re-mastered and slightly enlarged for easier reading, but none of the content has been altered. It contains all 80 books of the Bible within the Old Testament, Apocrypha and the New Testament. The Geneva Bible was the “Bible of the Protestant Reformation”, and the Bible of the Puritans and Pilgrims. It was the first Bible taken to America, brought over on the Mayflower. Most early American colonists, who were fleeing the religious oppression of the Anglican Church, originally wanted little to do with the King James Bible.

Pages crisp, clean and bright. Very good plus to near-fine.

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