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Notes on the cathedral libraries of England

Note 51 — Library of London.

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The first edition of this translation, rarely found in a perfect state. Of the six copies at Oxford, the Bodleian only is perfect. It contains portraits, engraved on copper, of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Leicester, and Secretary Cecil. For the difference between this edition and the reprint of 1572, see the Appendix to Cotton’s List of the Editions of the Bible in English, pp. 123-126.

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