Bible in English. New Testament (Rheims and Bishops' Versions)

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

The Text of the New Testament ...Translated ... by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes ... Whereunto Is Added the Translation ... Commonly Used in the Church of England, with a Confutation of All Such Arguments, Glosses, and Annotations, as Conteine Manifest Impietie, of Heresie, Treason and Slander, against the Catholike Church of God ... by William Fulke. London: Christopher Barker, 1589
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Folio (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 274 X 191 mm). Text in parallel columns, 56 lines to the full column: Rheims New Testament printed in roman type on the left, the Bishops' version in italics on the right, both divided in verses, all arguments, marginal notes, and other annotations of the Rheims NT printed at the end, interspersed with the confutations, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; occasional, faint dampstaining along bottom and light paper discoloration. Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style mottled calf; rebacked to period style, red morocco lettering pieces, mottling oxidized. Tan cloth slipcase.

Provenance

James Clarke Caswell (armorial bookplate)

Literature

Formatting the Word of God 10.5; STC 2888; ESTC S107061; Herbert 202

Catalogue Note

First edition of Fulke's refutation of the arguments and accusations contained in the Catholic New Testament, which was edited chiefly by Gregory Martin and printed at Rheims in 1582. The Rheims New Testament and the Bishops' version are printed in full, side by side, with Fulke's commentary at the end of each chapter. This tandem printing "secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained, and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611" (Herbert).