Textus Biblie.
[Lyon: Jean Crespin], 1529.
OLD and NEW TESTAMENT
Folio: 10 by 14" (355 x 250 mm).
Total 300 leaves (600 pp.)
Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders.
Title printed in red and black , with small woodcut of St. Jerome within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper.
Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders.
Decorative woodcut initials.
The Eusebian canons (leaves D1-D3) are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.
18th century calf, morocco lettering piece.
Some wear to binding, old paper repairs to some pages, dampstain on the lower margin of last several pages, and upper right corner of the few pages at the beginning of the book, worming to lower margin through approximately 11 leaves.
Adams V-474; Mortimer French 538; STC 442.

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