BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, London, Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614], 4to, genealogies, 2 woodcut titles (laid down), contemporary half calf. With the "she" reading in Ruth 3:15.

BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues. London: Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614]. Small 4to in 8s (206 x 162mm). Title to genealogies with "To the Christian Reader" followed by 34-pages of woodcut genealogies, the first with a woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve, highly elaborate woodcut titles to the Old and New Testaments, black letter, printed in double column, woodcut initials and ornaments (general title cropped at head, final leaf of genealogies torn and repaired with slight loss, both titles and final leaf laid down probably in the 18th- or early 19th-century, upper fore-corner of [Nnn8] torn away with slight loss of letters in running title, some cropping or shaving to signatures and catchwords, some marginal repairs occasionally affecting letters, occasional light staining and spotting, a few darker spots, abrasions and rustholes occasionally affecting text). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with four raised bands and black morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers (joints split, quite heavily rubbed, hole in lettering piece). Provenance: "[?]Mary Board Hear [sic] Book, 1753, aged 41 years, John Board his hand" (inscription on the verso of Old Testament title); "Henry Allen his Book Bought ye. 27th of February Anno Domini 1682/3" (fine calligraphic inscription on the blank verso of the leaf before the Apocrypha [illustrated]); illegible old inscription at the foot of the final page of the Apocryphra; some seepage of old inscription from verso to recto of the title page of the New Testament; some old marginal annotation and pen trials; "John Brown, Bridport, Oct. 1823. This book was found in a very decayed condition at Berrow in Somersetshire & rebound by J. B. at Taunton, October, 1819" (inscribed slip pasted down on the recto of the final leaf); later bibliographical pencil inscriptions to front free endpapers; from the Collection of the late Robert Michael Booth (1945-2024), publisher, writer, collector and broadcaster. With the "she" reading in Ruth 3:15 ("... and she went into the citie"). Darlow & Moule 250; Herbert 331; STC 2230.