Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection
8.The Politics of English Bible Printing
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THE GREAT BIBLE
The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the content of all the holy
scrypture, bothe of ye olde and newe testament, truly translated after
the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by ye dylygent studye of dyuerse
excellent learned men, expert in theforsayde tonges. Paris: Francis
Regnault, and London: Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, 1539.
Folio. 530 leaves ([6], lxxxiiii, cxxiii, [1] blank,
cxxxiiii [i.e., 132], lx [i.e., 80], ciii, [1]), 14¾ × 9¾
inches. Black letter, double column, 62 lines. Genesis and Apocrypha titles
within woodcut borders, illustrations and ornamental initials. Bound in decorated
brown morocco; spine gilt. First and third title pages and six leaves
in facsimile; lacking blank leaf. §DMH 46; STC (2nd ed.) 2068.
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of Theology, Southern Methodist University.