the poor
widow." This is the first Bible divided into verses.

Second edit. 4to., printed at Geneva, 1569. To
this edition is added "Certeine Tables, A Calendar,
and Fairs in Fraunce and elsewhere."

The first edition printed in London is a small
folio. Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1576.

The first edition of the Scriptures printed in
Scotland is the Geneva version, folio, began 1576,
by Thomas Bassandyne; and finished in 1579 by
Alexander Arbuthnot.

Other editions, 1577, London, sm. fol.; 1578,
sm. fol.; 4to., 1579; two editions 4to., 1580, 1581;
sm. fol.; 1582; 4to., 1583; lar. fol., 1583; 4to.,
1585; 4to., 1586; 8vo., 1586; 4to., 1587; 4to.,
1588; 4to., 1589; 8vo., Cambridge, 1591, supposed
to be first printed at the university; fol.,
1592; 4to., 1594; 4to., 1595; fol., 1595; 4to.,
1597; sm. fol., 1597; 4to., 1598; 4to., 1599. Of this
last date, said to be "Imprinted at London by the
deputies of Chr. Barker," but probably printed at
Dort, and other places in Holland, there were at
least seven editions; and, before 1611, there were
at least twenty other editions.

Between the years 1562 and 1611, there were
printed at least 130 editions of the Geneva Bible,
in folio, 4to., and 8vo.; each edition probably consisted
of 1000 copies.

Persons who know but little of the numbers
which are extant of this volume, have asked 100l.,
{18}
30l., and other like sums, for a copy; whereas, as
many shillings is about the value of the later
editions.

The notes by the Reformers from the margin
of the Geneva version, have been reprinted with
what is usually called King James' version, the one
now in use, in the editions printed at Amsterdam,
at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

[Curly-pi].

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POEMS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY.

MR. HALLIWELL (Vol. ii., p. 238.) says that he
does not believe my MS. of the "Minde of the
Lady Venetia Digby" can be an autograph. I
have reason to think that he is right from discovering
another MS. written in the same hand as the
above, and containing two poems without date or
signature, neither of which (I _believe_) are Ben
Jonson's. I enclose the shorter of the two, and
should feel obliged if any of your correspondents
could tell me the author of it, as this would throw
some light upon the _writer_ of