The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translators in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other thigs of great importance as may appear in the Epistle to the Reader.

Rare 1606 “Breeches” Bible, printed by Robert Barker. Small quarto, bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, rebacked, remnants of engraved brass furniture, general title-page and New Testament title-page with woodcut figural borders enclosing text within cordiform panels, text in black letter, double column, pinhole-sized worm-track to foot of text up to about f. 220, slightly larger worm-track to center of text from about f. 390, short closed tear in OT K3, with Book of Common Prayer (defective, repaired) bound in at front, and Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances (London: Robert Barker, 1605, sigs. A-K8 L2) and The Whole Booke of Psalms (London: for the Company of Stationers, 1605, sigs. A-G8, worming), both complete, bound in at rear [Herbert 287]. Genesis 3:7 with “Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches.” In very good condition. A rare and desirable example.