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Notes
By T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, revised by A. S. Herbert (1968), entry 107. Hereafter referred to as DMH.
James Baikie, The English Bible and Its Story (1928), p. 242; Ira Maurice Price, The Ancestry of Our English Bible, 3rd revised edition (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 263. See also Frederick F. Bruce, The English Bible (1961), pp. 91-92.
"Introduction to the Facsimile Edition," in The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition (1969), p. 13.
See DMH 143 to 308. I have carefully checked the entries in DMH against those in the forthcoming 2nd ed. of the Short-Title Catalogue. I am grateful to the Bibliographical Society (London) for sending me pre-publication proofs of the section on Bibles in the revised Short-Title Catalogue.
See, for example, James Baikie, p. 240; Ira M. Price, p. 263. These speak of the Geneva's "substitution of our modern Roman type for the picturesque but inconvenient black letter of the Great Bible," and of its "abandonment of black letter for the plain, simple roman type."
The 24 black letter editions are: DMH 154, 159, 160, 164, 165, 170, 174, 178, 179, 182, 183, 187, 190, 197, 199, 200, 201, 210, 211, 219, 220, 221, 222, and 225. The 19 editions in roman letter are: DMH 143, 144, 148, 149, 161, 171, 173, 184, 191, 194, 195, 205, 206, 208, 212, 215, 218, 223, and 226. (The Short-Title Catalogue does not indicate whether a volume was published in black or roman letter.)
This count does not include the 7 (possibly 8) "1599" editions of the Geneva Bible that were published on the Continent during the first half of the seventeenth century, but which were spuriously set forth as having been printed in London in 1599. All 7 editions were in roman type. Nor does it include the 3 editions published in Edinburgh in 1579, 1601, and 1610, all of which were in roman type.
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