£2,000
Folio, pp. [xlii], 378, 381-914, [10]. 20th-century half sheep, pebbled cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands, black morocco label. Title-page trimmed and mounted, final leaf also mounted, a few smaller repairs to early leaves, small wormhole in blank margin, some foxing and occasional light marginal dampstaining. Spine rather rubbed and darkened and sometime furbished, worn at ends and joints just starting to crack at head.
The second edition of Fulke's tendentious and influential comparison of the Douay-Rheims and Bishops' translations of the New Testament, with his notes and commentary, intended to refute the arguments on which the former version was based. Fulke's work, with the two texts in parallel columns, the Catholic in roman type and the Church of England version in italic, sold better in England than the Douai Bible ever had, bringing its language to a wider readership and becoming indirectly responsible for its influence on the coming King James version.
