Lot 318C email save

Bible, English (Bishop's Version).

Sign In to see what this sold for

[Bishop's Bible], 5 parts in one vol., black letter text in double columns with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, lacking first title, the final three leaves of 'Revelation' and three leaves of the genealogy, some other leaves with tears, marginal in the main, but with occasional loss, 18th-century panelled reversed calf, rebacked, [Herbert 125; STC 2099], folio, Richard Jugge, [1568].

***First edition of the "Bishop's Bible" - so-called because this revision of the Great Bible version was "undertaken by Mathew Parker (1504--1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well-known Biblical scholars" Herbert..

View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.

Similar lots up for auction