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The famed Barker Bible, a Geneva version printed in roman type, probably printed later in Amsterdam for the English publishers. Consists of the Old Testament, Psalmes, the New Testament, and the Psalmes of David (dated 1643) at rear. There is no Apocrypha, it having been omitted; some copies have the Apocrypha from the 1611 version included. There were a number of editions or variants with the 1599 date, some perhaps printed later. The present copy is Herbert's 'D' variant, with Esther i.1 containing the reading "seven and / twenty provinces." Herbert 251. Bookplate of Howard and Alice Johnson.