The Bible . that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages with most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of grea importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader.
Anthony Gilby (1510-1585)
Category
Books
Date
1582
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3142744
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],360,76,[2],115,[11] leaves . ill.. . fol.. Imperfect: lacking first pages, included title page- first page is Genesis 1. Trimmed too tightly, some text missing. Extra-illustrated with biblical scenes. Provenance: Nineteenth-century large Harpur, Crewe, Lovell and [unidentified] armorial bookplate, with inscription: Calke Abbey Library [i.e. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886), m. 1845 Georgiana Stanhope Lovell (1824-1910)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century [?] full blue grained leather binding; gilt tooled border and panel; spine gilt decorated and gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Anthony Gilby (1510-1585) Thomas Sampson William Whittingham (c.1524 - 1579)