Heading: (Bible in English)
Author:
Title: The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Out of The Text of the New Testament...Translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes... Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England....With a Confutation by William Fulke
Place Published: London
Publisher:Deputies of Christopher Barker
Date Published: 1589
Description:

19 (of 23?) preliminary leaves], 496 leaves, [3] pp. of tables. Woodcut initials. (4to) 28x19.5 cm (11x7¾"), period calf, raised spine bands.

First Fulke edition, giving the Bishops' version and the Rheims New Testament in parallel columns. "It was the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to refute the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582"--Herbert 202. With the pictorial bookplate of Naseeb Shaheen, Professor of English, University of Memphis.

General wear to boards, top joint cracked; this copy lacks title and perhaps a few preliminaries. The first 3 leaves are ragged. Top eighth of first leaf of text is missing, resulting in loss of text from Matt. 1.9-1.12. Concluding table is incomplete, going up to letter "F." Text generally clean, occasional leaves with early notes or doodling in margins; good.