The Holy Bible [KJV]
bound after The Book of Common Prayer and before Sternhold and Hopkins, The Whole Booke of Psalmes. BCP: no imprint (lacking title), but post-1662; OT: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1663; NT: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1665 [no Apocrypha, not called for in list of Books]; Psalmes: Company of Stationers, 1664. 8vo, ?contemporary panelled calf (upper board detached but present); text in double columns, ruled in red, floriated initials; unpaginated, signed BCP: A2-H8 [A1 lacking]; OT: [2], A8-2P2; NT: 2P3-4K8; Sternhold: A8-F8, G3; extra-illustrated with elements of the Slayter and van Langeren Biblical scenes (vide infra).

There are approximately 100 engravings bound throughout the Bible. These are from William Slayter and Jacob van Langeren's sequence of scenes. The first 40 (lacking 31 and 37) are present in the Old Testament along with one of King David for the Psalms (though there appear to have been c.60 in total) and there are c.60 in the New Testament, including a series of the Apostles captioned with the Creed in 12 parts.

The dating of the BCP is based in part on the presence of the so-called 'Black Rubric'. The Rubric was originally in the 1552 form of Communion and emphasised that kneeling to receive Communion did not accept a Real Presence, but rather was in humble recognition of the receipt of Christ's gifts. It was removed in Elizabeth's 1559 revisions, ostensibly to appease the moderate Traditionalists, but possibly because of her own beliefs. Its removal equally did not please the Puritanical wing of the Church because it opened the door again to the literal nature of Christ's presence in the Sacramental offering and they agitated for its return. It was returned to the book in the official revisions of 1662, but with a possibly significant change to the wording. The original form 'real and essential' was updated to 'Corporal'. The new form confirmed that kneeling was necessary (as some had begun pushing ritual boundaries in accepting in other attitudes). However it stated that kneeling did not imply adoration to the species of the Eucharist nor "to any Corporal Presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood", as these were in Heaven. Thus the radical Calvinist interpretations were removed and the delicate fudging game of the Church continued. It did not suffice however, as the non-conformists would still move away from the Church, and the idea of a truly 'Common Prayer' faltered after its brief universality under the Commonwealth.

It is perhaps worthy of note that the special services for the Gunpowder Plot, the Execution of Charles, King and Martyr, and the Restoration are not present, though the Order for them is. Whilst impossible to say, it appears the Bible was bound without them. Likewise, there is no Apocrypha, though it is not called for in the list of Books.
ESTC R213032; Herbert 685 (16630 and 692 (1665))