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was the Genevan Version, published at Edinburgh in 1579, in 



folio. 



About 1563 Archbishop Parker, feeling the necessity of a 

 better translation than those in use, prepared, with the help of 

 many of the Bishops, and published in 1568, in a fine folio 

 volume, what is known as "The Bishop's Bible." [Figs. IV., V.] 



i Cl* acnoel totf) tljc boofcr open, f, be CtocaretU tbcre fyalix no mop t pw, 

 &e geuttp ttjc boofee bnto 3ot)ti, toljiclj catctij it bp. 



Fio. IV. The. holie. Bible. 1568. First edition of The 



Bishops' Bible. 

 Woodcut from Kevelation x., ver. 1, 2. (Half the 



size of original.) 

 All the woodcuts have borders of this character. 



This was far less popular than the Genevan Version, and had 

 many fewer editions ; it was last printed in 1606 ; but it marks 

 one of the great steps in Bible publication. Besides these two 

 there was nothing of importance until 1611, the final edition of 

 Cranmer's, or the Great Bible, having been brought out in 1569. 

 I ought, however, to mention the Rheims version of the New 

 Testament made by the English College of Rheims, and published 



