Bible in English [Great Bible Version]

4to (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.; 197 x 140 mm). General title printed in red and black within architectural woodcut border, separate divisional title-pages with the same border for Part 3, the Hagiogropha [sic], and New Testament, almanac printed in red and black, small gothic letter, text in double columns, 61 lines to the full column, The Order of Common Prayer (A–C⁴) printed in a larger font and bound in after the Table of Principall Matters; pi2 gutter torn affecting a small portion of the table, minor dampstaining, fore-edge flaw on AA5 slightly affecting side-note, tiny scattered wormholes in quires GG–NN piercing a few letters here and there, overall a very crisp and clean copy. Late eighteenth-century speckled calf, double-filleted gilt border; upper joint cracked, small split at foot of spine.

The Earls of Dysart (Helmingham House library stamp on terminal leaf verso, shelf mark "L.F. III.7" on front pastedown; sale, Sotheby's London, 14 June 1965, lot 54)

STC 2089; ESTC S122326; Herbert 98

The Tollemache copy, a fine, complete copy.  Rare, ESTC locates only nine copies in institutions. At auction, there have only been three copies sold in the past fifty years: the present copy and two imperfect copies in 1970 (lacking twelve leaves) and 2005 (lacking twenty-eight or more leaves).

Herbert erroneously records quire [paragraph] (part of the Table of Principall Matters) as having eight leaves when in fact it only contains six. In his contents field, he correctly lists the number of leaves in the Table as fourteen, consisting of eight leaves in quire * and the aforesaid six in the paragraph quire.