The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all hard places, and other things of great importance.

The imprint is false. Actually printed in the Netherlands by J.F. Stam, possibly sometime after 1640--STC.

Geneva version, with Tomson's revised N.T. and Junius' Revelation.

New Testament with separate title page: The New Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ, translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza ...

Esther i.I.: "seuen and twen-/ty prouinces"--STC.

Issued with STC 2499.

Signatures: [par]⁴ A-Z⁸ &⁶ 2A-2Q⁸ 3A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴.

STC (2nd ed.), 2174

Herbert, A.S. Engl. Bible, 248

Pforzheimer, 60

English short title catalogue, S124519

3rd contemporary flyleaf Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy1. Title page missing, New Testament t.p. bound in its place. Copy in poor condition, most leaves have damaged fore-edges and corners. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Binding: brown sheepskin with gold tooling on spine, spine mended; title label in plain paper pasted to front cover, with title in ink "Breeches Bible 1599". Provenance: inscriptions for Gray family in early hand on t.p. verso and final page; ownership inscription on front flyleaf "I.A. Thomson, Grange 1856"; association with J. Armour Thomson, Wellington; deposited in the ATL on permanent loan by the Bible Society in New Zealand, 1978. Acc. 343567.

Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 2. Lacks general t.p., has portion of O.T. only and N.T. up to leaf 119. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Binding: mottled calf, rebacked. Provenance: ownership inscriptions for Robert H. Davy, 1799, and Giles Loalliday; inscriptions for Buller family 19th century including Rev. James Buller 1812-1884. Acc. 397176.

Digital image available: 3rd contemporary flyleaf, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy 2. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.