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Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 by Various
page 5 of 64 (07%)
Other editions, 1577, London, sm. fol.; 1578,
sm. fol.; 4to., 1579; two editions 4to., 1580, 1581;
sm. fol.; 1582; 4to., 1583; lar. fol., 1583; 4to.,
1585; 4to., 1586; 8vo., 1586; 4to., 1587; 4to.,
1588; 4to., 1589; 8vo., Cambridge, 1591, supposed
to be first printed at the university; fol.,
1592; 4to., 1594; 4to., 1595; fol., 1595; 4to.,
1597; sm. fol., 1597; 4to., 1598; 4to., 1599. Of this
last date, said to be "Imprinted at London by the
deputies of Chr. Barker," but probably printed at
Dort, and other places in Holland, there were at
least seven editions; and, before 1611, there were
at least twenty other editions.

Between the years 1562 and 1611, there were
printed at least 130 editions of the Geneva Bible,
in folio, 4to., and 8vo.; each edition probably consisted
of 1000 copies.

Persons who know but little of the numbers
which are extant of this volume, have asked 100l.,
{18}
30l., and other like sums, for a copy; whereas, as
many shillings is about the value of the later
editions.

The notes by the Reformers from the margin
of the Geneva version, have been reprinted with
what is usually called King James' version, the one
now in use, in the editions printed at Amsterdam,
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