1702 – 1711 FOLIO King James Reformer / Puritan Bible with Geneva & Theodore Beza Notes RARE

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Bound at front with The Book of Common Prayer…, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas’d, dated 1711.
The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majestie’s special command…, [Amsterdam]: Printed in the Year 1708.
New Testament dated 1707.
At rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Company of Stationers, dated 1702. All bound into one book.

This is a rare King James Version combined with Geneva Bible and Theodore Beza notes. Contains almost 1000 pages with notes on the complete Bible ,making this a veritable library of study and classic Protestant commentary in just one book. These annotations which are an important part of the Geneva Bible were Calvinistic and Puritan in character, and as such ,they were disliked by the ruling conservative Protestants of the Church of England as well as King James I, who commissioned the Authorized Version or King James Bible to replace it. The Geneva Bible had also motivated the production of the Bishops’ Bible under Elizabeth I, for the same reason, and later the Douay- Rheims edition by the recusant Papists. The Geneva Bible remained popular among Puritans and was their beloved translation of choice in use until after the English Civil War. The final 17th century printing was completed in 1644 in Amsterdam with the preceding 1640 edition being the first that deliberately omitted the Apocrypha. The Geneva notes were first included in an edition of the King James Bible in 1642 and printed in subsequent editions as late as 1715.

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majestie’s special command…, [Amsterdam]: Printed in the Year 1708, additional engraved general title, letterpress general and New Testament titles, three folding engraved maps only by Visscher (of five), one folding plan of Jerusalem, Apocrypha present, maps and plan torn and frayed to margins with some loss and repaired, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer…, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas’d, 1711, title torn with loss not affecting text (creased) and upper margin of A2 also torn, and bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Company of Stationers, 1702, worm holes to fore-margins throughout volume, and worm trails mostly to fore-margins of Book of Psalms at rear of volume, some toning and few marks, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, joints starting to split at head and foot and some wear, folio.

Dimensions: Approx. 15 3/8 inches x approx. 9 3/4 inches x approx. 3 inches – FOLIO.

KJ Reformer Bible