Queen Elizabeth seems to have preferred textile to leather covers, and she was frequently given lavishly decorated books.
Bodleian Libraries online catalogue (retrieved 8 November 2016).
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Geneva Bible, England, 1583
The Geneva Bible, presented to Queen Elizabeth I on New Year's Day 1584, by the printer, Christopher Barker.
Copyright Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Douce Bib. Eng. 1583 b.1.
The Geneva Bible now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was presented on New Year's Day 1584 to Queen Elizabeth I by the printer, Christopher Barker (c. 1529-1599). The cover is decorated with gold, silver and silk threads with seed pearls on a velvet ground material. The motifs include a symmetrical arrangement of stems worked in gold, with roses in Tudor style.
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