REPLY1851
"Breeches" Bible
By S. H. H.
In quoting from specimens of early printing, correctness of orthography, even in trivial matters, is desirable, and therefore I venture, in allusion to the interesting communication from on the subject of the Geneva or "*Breeches*" Bible, to state that the edition of 1576, in my possession, is "Imprinted by *Christopher Barkar*" (not Barker), "dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, at the signe of the Tygres Head." The text quoted varies also in two or three words from my copy, and it is probably from the Geneva edition. The English edition of 1576 runs thus, (Gen. iii. 7.): "Then the eyes of them *bot…
Topics: Geneva Bible, Early Printing, Orthography
Locations: Paternoster Rowe