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Issued in a smaller, more convenient format than
its predecessors, the Geneva Bible was produced
by Protestant refugees in Switzerland, after having
fled the Roman Catholic persecution in England
under Queen Mary. THis was the 1st English
Bible to use cerse divisions + the 1st to be printed
in Roman type. WIlliam Whittingham's
N.T. appeared in 1557; the complete Bibel in
which he had assistance from Anthony Gilby +
Thomas Sampson in 1560. For well over half a
century this was the Bible most read by
Englishmen + most often reprinted. Because of
its conncections with Calvinism, it was especially
favored by the Puritans.
- The Geneva Bible + John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
were the two most popular books in Elizabethan
England.

Quarto - this is the most ocmmon format in
which the Geneva Bible was printed; it
served for many years as the family Bible
for Puritans + Presbyterians throughout the
British Isles + in America as well.