16th Sep, 2023 10:00
Fine Art & Antiques
Unsold
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
A Geneva 'Breeches' Bible, 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 divers Languages..., Imprinted at London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queens most excellent Majestie, 1599, probably printed in Amsterdam circa 1630s and illegally imported into England, both Old and New Testaments with woodcut title pages displaying the tents of the twelve tribes and the twelve Apostles within square compartments, titled to the centre within a heart-shaped frame flanked by the four Evangelists and further symbols, the New Testament 'Englishised' by Laurence Tomson and with annotations of the Revelation of St John by Franciscus Junius, with colophon at the end of Table further stating 'Imprinted at London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queens most excellent Majestie, 1599', lacking Apocrypha as is common, with woodcut illustrations, rebound in gilt tooled red leather with five raised bands to spine, marbled inside covers and gilt edged pages, previous owner's inscriptions and family register to the front beginning 1759.
Note: The Geneva Bible was so called due to where it was first printed and translated by Protestants fleeing persecution circa 1560. It became extremely popular in England thanks to its accessibility and helpful study guides, but was disliked by the ruling Anglicans, especially King James I, for its supposed republican and seditious annotations. The King James Bible was published in 1611 with the intention of replacing the Geneva version, but did not stand up well to the competition; therefore the printing of the Geneva Bible was banned in England in 1616. The Bible continued to be printed abroad, mostly in Amsterdam, and imported into England with the apocryphal date of 1599 to imply that they had been printed in Queen Elizabeth I's reign and long before the ban.
The Bible earned the sobriquet 'Breeches' due to the use of the word in Genesis 3:7 "Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches.". Previous and later versions use the word aprons.
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