Bible, Latin. Biblia, breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctiss. interpretationibus, & Hebraeorum commentariis, 4 parts in 1, collation: *¹⁰ a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa⁸ Bb-Cc⁶ AA-LL⁸ MM⁶ aa-dd⁸ ee⁶ aaa-fff⁸ ggg¹⁰, with blank ee6, large woodcut printer's device to general title and divisional titles at aa1 & aaa1, woodcut criblé initials, general title with early ink inscriptions, chipped at margins with some loss to woodcut grapevine frame and silked, preliminary ff. and final few ff. with some marginal fraying and repairs, final f. with marginal loss and laid down, Z7&8 short tear to fore-edge, affecting one printed side-note but no loss, few instances of faint ruling to lower-margin and early marginal annotations, verse numbers supplied in ink manuscript throughout, the odd ink smudge or other small stain, a few times obscuring a few letters of text, some light water-staining, mainly near start, and very light spotting, gutter split at points but holding, ex-Milltown Park Jesuit Library with book-labels/stamp to pastedown and circular ink-stamp to general title and couple ff. at beginning and end, lacking endpapers, contemporary London binding of blind-stamped calf over wooden boards with portcullis, dragon and thistle roll (Oldham AN.g (1) 563), remains of clasps but lacking catches, worn with loss to backstrip and portions of leather to covers, particularly lower cover, sympathetic repairs, including to stitching, folio (400 x 280mm.), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1532.

⁂ Second enlarged, and first fully glossed, edition of the famed 1528 Estienne Bible, the glossary and index appearing as parts 3 and 4.

Literature: Adams B1011; Renouard 35.1; Darlow & Moule 6112; J.B. Oldham, English Blind-stamped Bindings (1952): AN.g (1) 563 (plate xxxvii).