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Title page cut and mounted to blank fly leaf. [2], 34, [4 (including 2-page map of Canaan)], [2], 435, [1 blank], [1 imprint for New Testament, verso blank], [6], 441-555, [1 imprint for alphabetical tables, verso blank], [180] pp. (4to) 21.4x15 cm. (8½x6¼"), period morocco with brass plate border and center piece on covers. Pastedowns are musical pages.

The Geneva Version of the Bible, the so-called "Breeches Bible," with the rendering of breeches for aprons in Genesis III. With engraved armorial bookplate of H.P. Fleetwood on front pastedown, another bookplate of Wallace Parham, plus some ink writing and an old catalogue description pasted to front free endpaper. The binding and some other points (although not all) match Herbert 164.