This Bible is illustrated with two full-page and 130 in-text woodcuts (including some repeated images), a few of which have early hand-coloring, mostly but not entirely in green or yellow. One full-page cut shows the six days of Creation — partially hand-colored in green, brown, red, blue, and yellow — while another depicts the manger scene. The text is followed by the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum, a dictionary of Hebrew names often appended to manuscript and early printed Bibles.

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled, alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards, elaborately worked using embossing rolls with religious vignettes and busts. Covers with etched metal corner bosses and remnants of leather and metal clasps.

•  Adams B988; c.f. Darlow & Moule 6101 & 6091. Binding as above, spine with hand-inked title; overall dust-soiled and darkened with several short tears to leather; leather no longer tight to the boards. Straps, clasp locking-mechanisms, and lower front metal corner now lost. Title-page and final two ff. of Interpretationes lacking; front pastedown separated from board and back pastedown lacking. First and last few leaves with insect damage to outer edges. First text page (contents) with old institutional rubber-stamp and shadow of pencilled numeral. A few leaves separated; a number of leaves with short tears from lower margins, a few extending into text, in many cases with traces of old repairs. Two leaves with lower outer corners torn away, one repaired some time ago. Pages age-toned, some waterstained. Scattered contemporary inked marginalia; some light underlining and a few instances of early inked doodling. Despite its faults, this is rare and imposing.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 19531; O’Callaghan 102; Rumball-Petre, Rare Bibles, 185. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Front free endpaper excised; half-title with old ink stain partially obscuring two letters of “Nouveau.” Foxed throughout; some corners bumped. One leaf with two tears through text, without loss; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away, with loss of words in five lines (each side); three leaves torn along inner margins (not touching text) and another torn from outer margin, extending into text without loss.

•  Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule; Shaw & Shoemaker 22372. Treed sheep; flat spine with gilt rules and a black leather title label, gilt-lettered. Lightly rubbed, dry with some cracking. Inside, scattered spots of light browning and some chipping in the margins, the latter not affecting text.

Provenance: Front pastedown with small booklabel of prominent collector Michael Zinman.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 34103; O’Callaghan, 126–27; Rumball-Petrie 193; not in Darlow & Moule. Contemporary sheep, framed and panelled in blind; leather abraded, with spine greatly rubbed and pitted (no label). Front pastedown with inscription scraped away. Pages age-toned, with some foxed and the last few waterstained. One leaf with tear from outer margin, touching a few letters. Two leaves bound in upside-down.

•  Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting, others with varying degrees of age-toning.

This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available, for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.

•  Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above, corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto, dulling outermost elements of gilt border (only) on front cover, just at those corners. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages (only). The whole very attractive and well preserved.

Binding: Red pebbled cloth, covers framed in triple gilt fillets with elaborate gilt dentelle rolls within. Front cover with central gilt-stamped S; spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt fillets. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, moderately worn over joints and extremities; spine with chip at top and over one band. Some minor foxing.